Apocalypse revisited : : a critical study on end times / / edited by Melis Mulazimoglu Erkal.

Mankind’s fascination with the Apocalypse is not new. Starting from the Hindu notions of Kali Yuga to 2012 Phenomenon, Apocalypse has been a part of our lives in the form of a cultural formation, natural threat, fictional entity, ideological construct, political fear or catastrophic end. Apocalyptic...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Strange Case of Frank Stranges: Space, Saucers and a Fundamentalist Apocalypse in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Daved Anthony Schmidt
  • Christian Universalism and the Outsourcing of Hell / Bernard Marcus Woodley
  • Apocalypse: Good and Bad / Mladen Milicevic
  • Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and the End of the ‘New World’ / Kiron Ward
  • And I Feel Fine: Reflections of the Apocalypse in Popular Music / Seth Habhegger
  • China, Modernity and Apocalypse: A Sociological Imagination / Guang Xia
  • The Oulu Prophecy and Finland and Cold War / Ville Jalovaara
  • Historicism, Empire and the Apocalyptic in Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick / João Félix
  • After the End: Moral Utopianism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake / Yu-Ching Wang
  • The End of Pluralism in Béla Tarr’s Apocalyptic A torinói ló/The Turin Horse / Phil Mann
  • Siren, Mother or Divinity: An Exploration of Femininity in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Deep Impact / Bronwen Welch
  • Language Use and Instruction after the Apocalypse / Jason D. Hendryx
  • Fear and Consumption in the Face of Disaster / Jennifer Drissel
  • Sirince, 2012: Apocalypse and Its Interpretations around the Globe.