The End of the World (ALTERNATIVES) - Hardcover

 
9780809310333: The End of the World (ALTERNATIVES)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0809310333 ISBN 13: 9780809310333
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Inhaltsangabe

The essays selected by the editors to ex­plore these apocalyptic visions are: ?The Re­making of Zero: Beginning at the End,” by Gary K. Wolfe; ?The Lone Survivor,” by Robert Plank; ?Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End,” by Robert Galbreath; ?World’s End: The Imag­ination of Catastrophe,” by W. Warren Wagar; ?Man-Made Catastrophes,” by Brian Stableford; and ?The Rebellion of Nature,” by W. Warren Wagar.

Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narra­tives a central attraction??the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world.” This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can anni­hilate humanity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Long Range Planning at the University of Michigan.

Martin H. Greenberg is with the College of Community Services at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Joseph D. Olander is Vice-Presi­dent for Academic Affairs, University of Texas, El Paso.

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Verlag
Southern Illinois University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1983
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0809310333
ISBN 13 
9780809310333
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
242
Herausgeber
Rabkin Eric S., Greengerg Martin H., Olander Joseph D.
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