CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
When Worlds Collide: A Study of Detective/Sci-Fi Fusion in Ben H. Winters’ The Last Policeman Trilogy
Book Title
Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
978-1-68393-050-1
Publication Date
10-10-2017
Editors
Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan
Keywords
Ben H. Winters, literature, sci-fi fusion, The Last Policeman Trilogy
Description
This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human form. It is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The third, The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic (2016), focused on a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture.
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
City
Lanham, MD
First Page
197
Last Page
210
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Celtic Studies | Comparative Literature | English Language and Literature | Literature in English, British Isles | Modern Literature
NSUWorks Citation
Jackson, C. (2017). When Worlds Collide: A Study of Detective/Sci-Fi Fusion in Ben H. Winters’ The Last Policeman Trilogy. Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts, 197-210. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/108
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