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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"apocalyptic"”.
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Yeats, Eliot, and Apocalyptic Poetry
… they wrote poetry that has been described as apocalyptic in the same historical period and in the same general geographic area but described entirely different visions. These particular works of Yeats and Eliot are appropriate because they represent two widely varying viewpoints on the causes, …
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Apocalyptic Addiction: William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
Burroughs created a new type of apocalyptic novel with Naked Lunch. In Naked Lunch the apocalypse is systemic, and takes place over a span of time, rather than being caused by one cataclysmic event. Burroughs shows that all human beings participate in an unintentional conspiracy to destroy …
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The Apocalyptic "Son of Man" in Daniel 7
… Dan 7:9-10, 13 (14) was a fragment from another apocalyptic and had intruded into the vision of the four beasts. Thus it was proposed (later also by traditio-historical research) that the SM was originally an individual figure, which had experienced a more or less complex history of …
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The Modern Black Novelist and The Apocalyptic Tradition
… this study is to establish a schematization of apocalyptic imagery, using as a basis mythic imagery, Judeo-Christian imagery and the secular strand of imagery in the modern American novel; to explore revisions of that scheme characteristic of the modern Black novel; and finally, to investigate …
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Vox populi: Visual rhetoric methodology for medieval Apocalyptic Art
Apocalypticism has been a major element in faiths and religions worldwide. The influence of the Christian Apocalypse in Western philosophy, spirituality, religion, imagery, iconography, and social thought is present in almost every form of visual rhetoric we know: photography, art, paintings, …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… century through the lens of an American-born apocalyptic movement: Seventh-day Adventism. Invoking biblical apocalypticism to foreground their anti-imperialism, Adventists developed a theological framework to interpret the ethics of US foreign policy. They rendered the book of Revelation’s …
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Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Dispensationalism, Israel/Palestine, and Ecclesial Enactments of Eschatology
… as a discussion of the positive functions of apocalyptic in Christian social ethics, pointing toward the possibility of alternative ecclesial enactments of apocalyptic theopolitics.
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
Religious apocalyptic literature appears to have been written in response to a situation of crisis in which the believers found themselves. It is the catalyst which provided the energy which the society needed in order to withstand that crisis, and it did this by radically inverting the dimensions …
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Blue Riders of the Apocalypse: Kandinsky and Marc in the German Apocalyptic Tradition
… goal is to locate within the German apocalyptic tradition the thought and practice of these two modern artists working in Munich during the early twentieth century. The focus is from 1896 through World War I to Marc’s death in 1916, paying close attention to 1911-1912, crucial years …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
This dissertation examines how, throughout the four major phases of his literary career, J.G. Ballard’s engagement with, and synthesis of, various twentieth century artistic and intellectual movements assisted Ballard in deciphering the twentieth century, while also enabling him to prophetically …
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The Apocalypticism of Hesiod, Plato, & Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries for Christian Apocalyptic Intertexts
… of Greco-Roman influences upon early Christian apocalypticism, thus laying a foundation for new intertextual studies. On the other hand, this study bridges apocalypticism research towards certain Greek and Latin authors, thereby creating new pathways of investigation for classicists. To achieve …
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The 'Apocalyptic' Paul: An Analysis and Critique with Reference to Romans 1-8
The claim that Paul is an ‘apocalyptic’ theologian is often made and often criticised. The most common critique, however, has been terminological in nature, since ‘apocalyptic’ is taken to imply a relationship to Jewish apocalypses. Yet advocates of the apocalyptic Paul use the term to signal a …
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Wandering into the Wasteland: White American Masculinities in the Apocalyptic Science Fiction Road Narrative
… of American white male subjects within the apocalyptic science fiction road narrative, focusing on two visual media in which this genre hybrid features prominently: film and comics. The study builds upon an embryonic body of scholarship addressing several structural, iconographic and …
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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
… has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between survivor characters situated among the crumbling remains of society and humanity. An attempt is made to show how TWD (1) establishes a common ideology among its characters, …
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Paul’s Theology of Preaching in 1 Corinthians 1–4 from the Perspective of Apocalyptic Eschatology
… theology and recognize the unmistakable rise of apocalyptic eschatology in Pauline studies, how that affects Paul’s theology of preaching in 1 Corinthians 1–4 has yet to be researched. This dissertation draws upon Pauline studies about apocalyptic eschatology to argue that apocalyptic eschatology …
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The Anglo-Catholic quality of Christina Rossetti's apocalyptic vision in The Face of the Deep.
… this dissertation argues that Rossetti's apocalyptic vision in The Face of the Deep is formed by the interpretive presuppositions of the Anglo-Catholic movement, which sought to reinvigorate the interpretation of Scripture with the traditional exegetical methods of patristic and medieval …
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The Imagined After: Re-Positioning Social Memory Through Twentieth-Century Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Film
… the past to the extent they once did. Post-apocalyptic literature and film intervene by addressing the heightened anxiety people feel regarding the changing experience of memory. This project examines how such unique narrative provide the necessary spaces through which to better understand …
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