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The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative (Hardcover)
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The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative (Hardcover)
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The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as
proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic, perhaps revelatory
conclusion. Even when evacuated of distinctly religious content, a
broadly ecclesial structure persists in conceptions of our
precarious life and our collective journey to an inevitable
fate-the extinction of the human species. It is commonly believed
that we are propelled along this course by human turpitude, myopia,
hubris or ignorance, and by the irreparable damage we have wrought
to the world we inhabit. Yet, this apprehension is insidious. Such
teleological convictions and crises-laden narratives lead us to
undervalue contingent, hesitant and provisional forms of experience
and knowledge. The essays comprising this volume concern a range of
writers' engagements with apocalyptic reasoning. Extending from a
reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Triumph of Life' to critiques of
contemporary American novels, they examine the ways in which 'end
times' reasoning can inhibit imaginative reflection, blunt
political advocacy or - more positively - provide a repertoire for
the critique of complacency. By gathering essays concerning a wide
range of periods and literary dispositions, this volume makes an
important contribution to thinking about apocalypticism in
literature but also as a social and political discourse. This book
was originally published as a special issue of Studia
Neophilologica.
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