This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this periods imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this curr...Lasīt vairāk
In this volume, we examine apocalypticism and millenarianism in the high and late medieval era in Europe as it was interpreted, expressed, and disseminated in popular culture by a variety of lay individuals, groups, and religious sects....Lasīt vairāk
From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, a revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelleys The Last Man to the Manic...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520388482)
Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events,...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520388468)
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the history and future of Black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to...Lasīt vairāk
This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeless infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom the catastrophic breakdown of the U.S. settler sta...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Temple University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781439925508)
Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeless infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and consolidation of colonial life. Pacharee Sudhinaraset employs a women-of-color feminist methodology t...Lasīt vairāk
For millennia there have been predictions about the end of the world. But between climate change, global pandemics, and the possibility of nuclear war, humankind faces an unprecedented number of existential threats today. Will any of these bring an e...Lasīt vairāk
For millennia there have been predictions about the end of the world. But between climate change, global pandemics, and the possibility of nuclear war, humankind faces an unprecedented number of existential threats today. Will any of these bring an e...Lasīt vairāk
From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature: Reading to Make Sense of Our Endings argues that imaginative literature is essential to comprehending contemporary threats to the survival of the human species and the preservation of our h...Lasīt vairāk
From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelleys The...Lasīt vairāk
Confront Satans End-Time Deceptions Head-On!In this era of unparalleled technological advances, as Artificial Intelligence reshapes our world, believers are faced with urgent, soul-stirring questions: Is there a trace of A...Lasīt vairāk
One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231211611)
Writing in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the existential angst of the postwar era, Samuel Beckett, like few other authors spoke to the cultural imagination and anxieties of living in the vortex of catastrophes. For Gabriele Schwab, his work ha...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Oct-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231211604)
Samuel Becketts work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Becketts characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they end...Lasīt vairāk
Tom Holts brilliantly funny new novel set in the world of The Portable Door (now a delightful movie starring Patrick Gibson, Sophie Wilde, and Christoph Waltz). The team of commercial sorcerers at Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson ca...Lasīt vairāk
Tom Holts brilliantly funny new novel set in the world of The Portable Door (now a delightful movie starring Patrick Gibson, Sophie Wilde, and Christoph Waltz). The team of commercial sorcerers at Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson ca...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Apr-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009289207)
This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this periods imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this curre...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclea...Lasīt vairāk
