Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation
The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic transformations - the various encounters with anthropogenic climate change, nuclear...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel/Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803417806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation
- Part 1: From Old Worlds to New Worlds
- A Political Theology of the World That Ends
- A Godless Apocalypse and the Atom Bombs: Ronald Knox and a New Concept of World Ending
- Remembering John Ball: Rethinking the Transformation from Old Worlds to New
- Part 2: World Ending Experiences
- New World and the End of the World: Apocalyptic Cartographies of the Conquest
- Mapping Space and Time in Apocalyptic Representations in Latin American Colonial Art
- Restitutive Writings of Worlds at the Southern Confine of the World
- Part 3: Apocalyptic Imaginaries
- The Infrastructure of the Planets of the Apes
- Pralaya: Competing Apocalypses and Dystopias in Contemporary Indian Science-Fiction
- Part 4: Action, Activism, Advocacy
- The Cross and the Pink Shotgun: Apocalypse and the Antifeminist Movement in Bolsonaro's Brazil
- World without Humans, Humans without World: Apocalyptic Passions in the Anthropocene
- The Wheelchair and the Whale: Disability and the End of the World
- Contributors
- Index
