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The End That Does : Art, Science and Millennial Accomplishment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Millennialism and Society SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781845534882
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The End That DoesDDC classification:
  • 202.3
LOC classification:
  • BL503.2 -- .E53 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 'The End that Does' tracks the interplay of the arts, sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years.
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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.

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