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“Ic Þa Beheold Þone Ormætan Lig”: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of the Apocalypse Legend as Religious and Communal Threats of Damnation

Chapter Title

“Ic Þa Beheold Þone Ormætan Lig”: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of the Apocalypse Legend as Religious and Communal Threats of Damnation

Book Title

Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

Department

Department of Literature and Modern Languages

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Document Type

Book Chapter

Editors

Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan

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.

ISBN

978-1-68393-050-1

Publication Date

10-10-2017

Publisher

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

City

Madison, NJ

Keywords

Literary Criticism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literary Criticism, Modern and 21st Century, Literary Criticism, Popular Literature

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Celtic Studies | Comparative Literature | English Language and Literature | Literature in English, British Isles | Translation Studies

First Page

1

Last Page

11

“Ic Þa Beheold Þone Ormætan Lig”: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of the Apocalypse Legend as Religious and Communal Threats of Damnation
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