Post-Apocalyptic
North Country:An English Post Apocalyptic Landscape
... the post-apocalypse on ...which post-apocalyptic films can ...a post-apocalyptic play set in Bradford; in this essay, I will consider how such altered landscapes can be approached on ...
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Microtopias: the post apocalyptic communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse
... the post-apocalyptic America of the novel’s present, in which an anthropomorphised Nature – as if reacting against the emptying out of its human inhabitants – has started ‘living only for itself’ (169), a ...
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Repelling the Invasion of the “Other”: Post-Apocalyptic Alien Shooter Videogames Addressing Contemporary Cultural Attitudes
... in post-apocalyptic videogames, only on a more symbolic allegorical ...the post- 9/11 dynamics discussed by other theorists; it is just that the kind of referencing going on is symptomatic of long ...
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Education of and for the ‘post-apocalyptic’: How Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
... In same cases in The Cynical Educator, it is the usual story. Modern education has been knocked down, and corrupted by various powers raging from all-round commodification, instrumentality and ‘neoliberalism’, but unlike ...
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An Examination of Strong Female Characters in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Young Adult Literature
... One of the most popular trends in young adult science fiction in the last 5 years has been dystopian/post-apocalyptic storylines in which the strong female protagonists are called upon to perform tremendous ...
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Post-Apocalyptic Language and Gender Aspects in McCarthy s The Road: The Sacred Idiom Shorn of Its Referents
... only to wake up to the bitter reality. But he has begun to learn how to wake himself from such dreams with “a fake taste of peaches in his mouth” (18). “He thought if he lived long enough the world would at last all be ...
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Major Themes in Post-Apocalyptic British Fiction
... All three of these environments have several qualities in common: they are based on a rural way of life, they are small in area and limited in population numbers and most importantly, they are only sustainable if re- ...
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“Footprint”: the apocalyptic imprint of end as immanent in Atwood's Oryx and Crake
... the post-apocalyptic aftermath through which the urban jungle of an erstwhile temperate climate city becomes a harsh, tropical jungle alive with genetically modified ...
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The problem of the end: A sociological study of the management of apocalyptic faith at Kensington Temple, a London Pentecostal church, at the turn of the millennium
... left unchanged); and miraculous (to be accomplished by, or with the help of, supernatural agencies). This definition encompasses countless ways of imagining the millennium, whose imagined specifications have varied ...
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Stephan King’s Stand and Apocalyptic View of Modern and Postmodern Science Fiction
... human liberation. (26) In the Stand Americans are capable of doing great feats, and King demonstrates the true capacity of Americans rather than leaving the everyday Americans “captive” in a society relying on ...
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View of Post-Digital Is Post- Screen
... so-called Post-Internet art (Olson 60; Vierkant 5). The Post-Internet art ‘movement’ and the post-digital have in common that they both re-examine the faulty premises common views of digital culture ...
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The Apocalyptic War Against Gog Of Magog. Martin Buber versus Meir Kahane
... his post-war efforts to reconcile Israel with Germany, and his laboring for a peaceful coexistence between Jewish and Arab Israelis testify to the weight his approach of Gog had for him, despite the ...
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Patristic reception and apocalyptic character : the Shepherd of Hermas as authoritative book in early Christianity
... the apocalyptic character of this work in relation to its inclusion in the modern literary genre, with an interest in the less- and even non-apocalyptic material in the ...
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Is Post-Truth Politics Really Post-Truth?
... The idea that contemporary politics are ‘post-truth’ was the result of the political situation in 2015 and 2016, with both the Brexit vote and the US presidential elections suffering from a general abandonment of ...
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Painting on the edge: Julian Perry’s paintings of the apocalyptic erosion on England’s eastern coastline
... In one large painting from 2004, ‘Long Running’, Perry depicted a ragged array of silver birch trees, which had over time encroached on an open space threatening to destroy its unique[r] ...
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An alternative approach to the phenomenon of ISIS: Understanding the behaviour of ISIS by considering it as an apocalyptic cult
... of apocalyptic cults on the basis of research on the Japanese apocalyptic cult Aum Shinrikyo which committed several terrorist ...defines apocalyptic cults as organisations envisioning that the world ...
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Luminol theory and the excavation of narrative & The dead girl scrolls: unearthed apocalyptic fictions
... Early in the novel, when the disoriented reader is still trying to feel their way through the world of EVER, there is a section which introduces the district, with its identical tract houses, which are largely empty ...
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Apocalyptic Vision in Laotian Short Story “The Roar of a Distant War” by Viliya Ketavong
... Apocalyptic imagery has proliferated in the imagination of the human race since ancient times and is not exclusive to the West. Most religious texts paint a version of the end of time. In the Bible we have the ...
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Wisdom and apocalyptic in the Gospel of Matthew : a comparative study with 1 Enoch and 4QInstruction
... This question is not central to the concerns ofthe present study, but it certainly warrants some treatment as a closely related issue: on one hand, the study of Matthew's Gospel is an im[r] ...
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Interpreting the Book of Revelation and Its Apocalyptic Implications for the 21st Century African Pentecostal Churches
... Revelation; Apocalyptic and Epistolary Introduction; The Seven Churches in Revelation in the Context of 21 st Century African Pentecostal Churches; and The Apocalyptic Implications of John’s Vision to the ...
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