Apocalyptic projections : a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature / / edited by Annette M. Magid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.087620938 |
Soggetto topico |
Apocalypse in literature
Apocalypse in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-4438-7880-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III:; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 | ||
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A Bloody and Barbarous God [[electronic resource] ] : The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy / / Petra Mundik |
Autore | Mundik Petra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.54 |
Soggetto topico |
Spirituality in literature
Mysticism in literature Philosophy in literature Gnosticism in literature Apocalypse in literature Good and evil in literature Metaphysics in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8263-5671-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. " A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy -- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian -- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian -- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian -- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian -- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses -- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one -- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two -- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three -- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four -- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain -- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain -- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy -- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men -- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494739903321 |
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Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 | ||
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A Bloody and Barbarous God [[electronic resource] ] : The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy / / Petra Mundik |
Autore | Mundik Petra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.54 |
Soggetto topico |
Spirituality in literature
Mysticism in literature Philosophy in literature Gnosticism in literature Apocalypse in literature Good and evil in literature Metaphysics in literature |
ISBN | 0-8263-5671-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. " A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy -- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian -- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian -- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian -- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian -- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses -- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one -- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two -- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three -- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four -- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain -- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain -- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy -- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men -- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798151503321 |
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Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 | ||
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A Bloody and Barbarous God [[electronic resource] ] : The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy / / Petra Mundik |
Autore | Mundik Petra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.54 |
Soggetto topico |
Spirituality in literature
Mysticism in literature Philosophy in literature Gnosticism in literature Apocalypse in literature Good and evil in literature Metaphysics in literature |
ISBN | 0-8263-5671-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. " A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy -- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian -- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian -- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian -- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian -- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses -- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one -- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two -- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three -- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four -- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain -- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain -- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy -- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men -- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809361303321 |
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Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 | ||
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The end of the world [[electronic resource] ] : apocalypse and its aftermath in Western culture / / Maria Manuel Lisboa |
Autore | Lisboa Maria Manuel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxv, 194 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809.93382 |
Soggetto topico |
End of the world
Apocalypse in art Apocalypse in literature Apocalypse in motion pictures |
Soggetto non controllato |
literature
oryx and crake margaret atwood cultural studies douglas adams terminator blade runner george orwell apocalypse aldous huxley john wyndham nineteen eighty-four 1984 brave new world film studies armageddon harry potter Utopia |
ISBN |
1-906924-61-9
1-906924-50-3 2-8218-1708-8 1-906924-52-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents --List of Illustrations --Prologue --1. Apocalypse Now and Again --2. The World Gone M.A.D. --3. And Then There Was Nothing: Is the End Ever Really the End? --4. Falling Out with Hal and Hester --5. Dying of Happiness: Utopia at the End of this World --Afterword: Libera Me, Domine, De Vita Æterna --Bibliography --Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139052603321 |
Lisboa Maria Manuel
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Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, 2011 | ||
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The end of the world [[electronic resource] ] : apocalypse and its aftermath in Western culture / / Maria Manuel Lisboa |
Autore | Lisboa Maria Manuel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxv, 194 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809.93382 |
Soggetto topico |
End of the world
Apocalypse in art Apocalypse in literature Apocalypse in motion pictures |
Soggetto non controllato |
literature
oryx and crake margaret atwood cultural studies douglas adams terminator blade runner george orwell apocalypse aldous huxley john wyndham nineteen eighty-four 1984 brave new world film studies armageddon harry potter Utopia |
ISBN |
1-906924-61-9
1-906924-50-3 2-8218-1708-8 1-906924-52-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents --List of Illustrations --Prologue --1. Apocalypse Now and Again --2. The World Gone M.A.D. --3. And Then There Was Nothing: Is the End Ever Really the End? --4. Falling Out with Hal and Hester --5. Dying of Happiness: Utopia at the End of this World --Afterword: Libera Me, Domine, De Vita Æterna --Bibliography --Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996205295203316 |
Lisboa Maria Manuel
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Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, 2011 | ||
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Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / / Christopher Abram |
Autore | Abram Christopher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
Disciplina | 839.609 |
Collana | Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism |
Soggetto topico |
Old Norse literature - History and criticism
Mythology, Norse Disasters in literature Apocalypse in literature Environmental disasters |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8139-4228-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: Ash -- Ecocriticism and Old Norse -- Remembering and dismembering a transcorporeal cosmos -- The nature of world in a world without nature: heimr, verold, jor? -- Tree-people and people-trees -- Trees, vines, and the golden age of settlement -- The asir and the anthropocene -- Reading Rangarok at the end of the world. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467619603321 |
Abram Christopher
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 | ||
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Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / / Christopher Abram |
Autore | Abram Christopher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
Disciplina | 839.609 |
Collana | Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism |
Soggetto topico |
Old Norse literature - History and criticism
Mythology, Norse Disasters in literature Apocalypse in literature Environmental disasters |
ISBN | 0-8139-4228-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: Ash -- Ecocriticism and Old Norse -- Remembering and dismembering a transcorporeal cosmos -- The nature of world in a world without nature: heimr, verold, jor? -- Tree-people and people-trees -- Trees, vines, and the golden age of settlement -- The asir and the anthropocene -- Reading Rangarok at the end of the world. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793220203321 |
Abram Christopher
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 | ||
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Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / / Christopher Abram |
Autore | Abram Christopher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
Disciplina | 839.609 |
Collana | Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism |
Soggetto topico |
Old Norse literature - History and criticism
Mythology, Norse Disasters in literature Apocalypse in literature Environmental disasters |
ISBN | 0-8139-4228-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: Ash -- Ecocriticism and Old Norse -- Remembering and dismembering a transcorporeal cosmos -- The nature of world in a world without nature: heimr, verold, jor? -- Tree-people and people-trees -- Trees, vines, and the golden age of settlement -- The asir and the anthropocene -- Reading Rangarok at the end of the world. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813488603321 |
Abram Christopher
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 | ||
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From utopia to apocalypse [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction and the politics of catastrophe / / Peter Y. Paik |
Autore | Paik Peter Yoonsuk |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Utopias in literature Apocalypse in literature Politics in literature Politics and literature - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4529-4607-8
0-8166-7341-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : The god that succeeded -- Utopia achieved : the case of Watchmen -- The defense of necessity : on Jang Joon-Hwan's Save the green planet -- The saintly politics of catastrophe : Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind -- Between trauma and tragedy : from The matrix to V for vendetta. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459207703321 |
Paik Peter Yoonsuk
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 | ||
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