Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World

ISBN-13: 9781138547438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Monica Germana; Aris Mousoutzanis

Opis

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which 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, fifteen original essays by a group of internationally established and emerging critics reflect on the apocalypse, its past tradition, pervasive present and future legacy.

Recenzje

"A compelling examination of ongoing crises, this book provides essential tools to unite the terminal and revelatory dimensions of apocalyptic discourse and mobilize it for thinking our future otherwise." -- Sherryl Vint, Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies, University of California, Riverside, USA

Spis treści

Introduction: After the End? Monica Germanà & Aris Mousoutzanis Part 1: Theory  1. Apocalyptic Security: Biopower and the Changing Skin of Historic Germination Lee Quinby  2. To Have Done with the End Times: Turning the Apocalypse into a Non-Event Sophie Fuggle  3. Are Ruses Necessary to Evade Catastrophe? On Slavoj Žižek’s Endorsement of Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s "Faire comme si le pire était inevitable" John Vignaux Smyth  4. The Apocalyptic Sublime: Then and Now Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik Part 2: Space, Place and Environment  6. The Post-Apocalyptic Sublime: A Gothic Response to Contemporary Environmental Crisis in John Burnside’s Glister (2009) Emily Horton  7. Under the Westway and Up in the Air: New Brutalist Aftermath Aesthetics in J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island (1974) and High-Rise (1975) Joanne Murray  8. Escape / Landscape / Genderscape: No Futures for Women Elizabeth Russell  9. ‘Soul Delay’: Trauma and Globalization in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003) Aris Mousoutzanis  Part 3: Time and History  10. The Not so Cozy Catastrophe: Re-Imagining the British Disaster Novel in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962) and Brian Aldiss’s Barefoot in the Head (1969)  Christopher Daley  11. Apocalyptic Themes in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (2009) Magdalena Zolkos  12. "Billows of Ash": Cormac McCarthy’s Road Back to Auschwitz  Francesca Haig  13. The Ambassadors of Nil: Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse Alexandra Warwick and David Cunningham  Part 4: Language and the End of the Word  14. Language Decay and Creation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction William Abberley  15. "What are all those things he once thought he knew, and where have they gone?": The End of the Wor(l)d in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) Monica Germanà  16. Zpocalypse Adam C. Roberts