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Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture - Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World (Hardcover)
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Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture - Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This interdisciplinary volume focuses on critical and theoretical
responses to the apocalypse, reflecting on its past tradition,
pervasive present and future legacy. It offers a dynamic
combination of theoretical speculation, textual analysis and
historicisation, exploring four crucial areas of investigation:
theory, space, time, and language. Authors examine how apocalyptic
discourses have had an impact on how we read the world's globalised
space, the traumatic burden of history, and the mutual relationship
between language and eschatological belief. The apocalypse is
generally understood as a complex and often paradoxical paradigm of
contemporary culture. This book offers a new, post-millennial
perspective that perceives 'the end' as immanent rather than
imminent, and develops existing theoretical tendencies that
approach apocalyptic fictions as fantastic displacements of
contemporary social, cultural and political anxieties. It points to
the many ways in which the apocalypse is spatialised and mapped
across urban, virtual, and global spaces.This collection explores
the widespread appeal of the apocalypse as one of the most
pervasive preoccupations in the history of Western culture, and one
that has served as a template to construct different sets of
cultural anxieties throughout history.
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