The End That Does : Art, Science and Millennial Accomplishment.
Gutierrez, Cathy.
The End That Does : Art, Science and Millennial Accomplishment. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (325 pages) - Millennialism and Society Series . - Millennialism and Society Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Epigraph: Will (poem) -- In/tensions -- Part I: At/tension -- The Pharmakon of the Apocalypse -- The Merit of Time: A Genealogy of the Countdown -- Postcard I (poem) -- Part II: Re/tension -- Collecting the Cosmos: The Apocalypse of the Ancient Library -- Giordano Bruno and the Rewriting of the Heavens -- Francis Bacon's Scientific Apocalypse -- Promise (poem) -- Part III: De/tension -- The Elusive Isis: Theosophy and the Mirror of Millennialism -- Promiseland: Utopian Technology and the American Millennial Dream -- Postcard II (Poem) -- Part IV: Dis/tension -- The End Is Still Near: The Eternal Apocalypse of the Tabloids -- Christian Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction and Technology -- Unto (Rose Window, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris) -- Part V: Tense -- Y2KO to Y2OK -- Cloister (Poem) -- Respite (Poem) -- Part VI: Ex/tension -- The Space Needle Hits the Road: The Portability of Home, Landmark, and Memorial -- Ultima Thule - The City at the End of the World: Jerusalem in Modern Christian Apocalyptic -- International Radio -- Glossary -- Index.
'The End that Does' tracks the interplay of the arts, sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years.
9781845534882
Millennialism -- Congresses.
Religion and culture -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
BL503.2 -- .E53 2006eb
202.3
The End That Does : Art, Science and Millennial Accomplishment. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (325 pages) - Millennialism and Society Series . - Millennialism and Society Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Epigraph: Will (poem) -- In/tensions -- Part I: At/tension -- The Pharmakon of the Apocalypse -- The Merit of Time: A Genealogy of the Countdown -- Postcard I (poem) -- Part II: Re/tension -- Collecting the Cosmos: The Apocalypse of the Ancient Library -- Giordano Bruno and the Rewriting of the Heavens -- Francis Bacon's Scientific Apocalypse -- Promise (poem) -- Part III: De/tension -- The Elusive Isis: Theosophy and the Mirror of Millennialism -- Promiseland: Utopian Technology and the American Millennial Dream -- Postcard II (Poem) -- Part IV: Dis/tension -- The End Is Still Near: The Eternal Apocalypse of the Tabloids -- Christian Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction and Technology -- Unto (Rose Window, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris) -- Part V: Tense -- Y2KO to Y2OK -- Cloister (Poem) -- Respite (Poem) -- Part VI: Ex/tension -- The Space Needle Hits the Road: The Portability of Home, Landmark, and Memorial -- Ultima Thule - The City at the End of the World: Jerusalem in Modern Christian Apocalyptic -- International Radio -- Glossary -- Index.
'The End that Does' tracks the interplay of the arts, sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years.
9781845534882
Millennialism -- Congresses.
Religion and culture -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
BL503.2 -- .E53 2006eb
202.3