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Imagining Apocalypse : Studies in Cultural Crisis, Hardback Book

Imagining Apocalypse : Studies in Cultural Crisis Hardback

Edited by Kenneth A. Loparo

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This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment.

Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age.

In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects.

Among the writers covered are H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J.

G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.

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