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Book Title

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

ORCID ID

0000-0002-4966-1251

Document Type

Book Chapter

ISBN

978-1-68393-050-1

Publication Date

10-10-2017

Editors

Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan

Keywords

literary criticism, modern and 21st century, popular literature, science fiction & fantasy

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

ix

Last Page

xvi

Disciplines

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

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