Apocalypse : Imagining the End.

Intro -- Apocalypse: Imagining the End -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Waiting for the End -- The End of the World as We Know It: End of Time Prophecies in Shirley Jackson's The Sundial -- Revaluation of Values: Thoughts on Bion and The Rapture -- Thinking Apocalypse -- Apocalyptic Fantasies in American Film -- Part 2 Visual Images of the Apocalypse -- Falling Men: Images of the Falling Human in Art and Photography -- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Visual Expressions of Burial as Loss of Teleology -- Part 3 Post-Apocalyptic Visions -- The Post-Apocalyptic Chronotope -- Drowning Towers: An Antipodean Apocalypse -- Gendering Apocalypse, Selling (In)Security and Performing Consumption Securing in I Am Legend -- Part 4 The Apocalypse throughout History (Non-Fiction) -- Doomtown, Australia: Nuclear Apocalypse and the Urban Imagination -- ApocalypseWhen? Time and Symbolism as Components of Apocalyptic Situations -- The Sibylline Oracles and Queen Zenobia of Palmyra: A Case Study for Apocalypse as a Venue for Political Power and Resistance in the Late Roman Empire -- From King Phillip's War to the Mayan Apocalypse: Native American and Western Visions of End Times -- Regarding the Signs of the Times: Dispensationalist Spirituality and Prophecy Interpretation in the Gilded Age America -- Part 5 Biology/Science and Apocalyptic (Im)Possibilities (Non-Fiction) -- England's Race Suicide and the Eugenic Apocalypse of Teilhard de Chardin -- Viral Apocalypses: Preparing for the Worst Case Scenario.

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