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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This...
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Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This groundbreaking collection of essays offers an overview of the Apocalyptic imagination as it presents itself in French literature and culture from the thirteenth century to the present day
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Leona Archer and Alex Stuart, with Daron Burrows Introduction; Part 1 Pre-1800; Daron Burrows 'Vers la fin croistra la religion'; Nigel Morgan Three French Fourteenth-Century Apocalypses; Adeline Lionetto-Hesters Ronsard's Bergerie: From Pastoral Dream to Apocalyptic Reverie; Kathryn Banks Apocalypse and Literature in the Sixteenth Century; Nathan Parker Proselytism and Apocalypticism in England; Part 2 1800-1945; Michel Arouimi Rimbaud's Apocalypse; Marie Vélikanov Eschatology in the Poetry of Charles Péguy
Maria Manuel Lisboa This World is Not the Case: Apocalypse in J.H. Rosny AinéJennifer Rushworth 'Alors la résurrection aura pris fin'; Crispin Lee Georges Bataille or the Theory and Fiction of Apocalyptic Visions; Part 3 Post-1945; Ana-Maria M'Enesti Dialectics of Apocalyptic Imagery in Eugène Ionesco's Plays; Lara Cox Absurd Visions of the Apocalypse; Susannah Ellis Writing in the Aftermath; Tony Thorström The Corporeal Apocalypse; Angus MacDonald New French Horror and the End of the World As We Know It; Notes on Contributors; Index
