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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"apocalypse"”.
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Cheap Apocalypse
<p><em>Cheap Apocalypse</em> is a novel that explores how free-market capitalism has imperiled diverse ecologies and the future(s) of every living species in the pursuit of profit maximization. Narrated by a discarded television floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch––an enormous amalgamation …
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Apocalypse now now
Baxter Zevcenko is your average 16-year-old-boy. If by average you mean a possible serial killer, the kingpin of a porn-peddling schoolyard syndicate and the only thing standing in the way of full-scale gang warfare between the two powerful gangs which control Westridge High School. Which may well …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
In this dissertation, the use of apocalypse and elegy in contemporary American literature has been explored in an attempt to draw some conclusions about America's complex twenty-first century consciousness. I have selected the millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo …
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Abstract and figurative elements of the Apocalypse and its representations
… and sites of relevant works depicting The Apocalypse, with a discussion of some of the different visual responses to this book over the centuries. In Chapter Three I endeavor to suggest my own partly visual "reading" of Revelation, particularly responding to archetypes and symbols, and …
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The Erotic Apocalypse: The Androgynous Ideal in Blake and Shelley
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709030.pdf: 13081717 bytes, checksum: a90041b1c52b4933ee2b87759f001ff1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Speculating after the Interregnum: Utopia and Apocalypse in Cape Town
… through the usage of tropes such as utopia and apocalypse. I use a few theoretical frameworks that read together explicate the geographies of representation within the novels I examine, from Berlant's “Cruel Optimism” (illustrating an “affective” experience of Cape Town) to Berger's …
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The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film
<p>This dissertation traces the encounter between psychology as a human science and the viral zombie film genre using the collaborative works of Deleuze and Guattari in conjunction with the queer anti-humanist theories of Colebrook and Halberstam. I interwove thematic (i.e. plot, dialogue, …
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Spirit Don't Ever Die: Apocalypse and Denial in an Infinite Universe
… understanding fiction’s denial or acceptance of apocalypse. I first examine William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel The Night Land, a far-future tale set in a post-solar Earth. I contend that Hodgson’s centering of the human experience prevents him from portraying a true end and instead lends his work …
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Disco apocalypse : liminal fictoscapes, and, hatricks: where did the white rabbit go?
This thesis comprises a novel, Disco Apocalypse: Liminal Fictoscapes, and an accompanying exegesis, Hatricks: Where did the White Rabbit Go? which together explore socio-political and aesthetic currents in contemporary culture and literature by means of an authorial journey. The ultimate aim of the …
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The Concept of Character in the Apocalypse with Implications for Character Education
… study analyzes the concept of character in the Apocalypse against a background of humanistic philosophy originating in Plato and Aristotle, noting in each system the concepts regarding the norm of character, the nature of man, the nature of good and evil, and the method of character …
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Apocalypse: a study of myth and archetype in the novels of Calixthe Beyala
… Dominant among these archetypes is the theme of apocalypse, which is understood not just as a catastrophe, but also as a revelation, opening the way to a new future, a heaven on earth from which the sufferings and injustices of the present world are banished. Surprisingly, given the scepticism of …
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Blue Riders of the Apocalypse: Kandinsky and Marc in the German Apocalyptic Tradition
… the intellectual and artistic discourse of apocalypse into their experience and the consequences this had for their art and thought. I analyze each artist’s apocalyptic mindset itself and consider its implications. Guiding this inquiry is the following question: as a product of a distinct …
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