Add to ORKGThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06This essay discusses the history of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction using critical theory, a close examination of relevant novels and short stories, and personal anecdotes. It concludes that post-apocalyptic literature can be see as comforting rather than hellish, since it provides an “after” for an cataclysmic event, no matter how dismal. The world does not end; it continues, just in a different form
This thesis discusses the connection between humanity and the ecosystem as they relate to modern sci...
This thesis analyzed common aspects of six major works of dystopian literature to assess their commo...
This is a book about an event that never happened, and the cultural, literary, political and histori...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2018In the recent rise of dystopic fiction, millenarianism...
Textual genre criticism and close readings of novels and films reveal that, in addition to chronicli...
The traumatic XXth century made humans believe their existence was getting close to an end. This wor...
This thesis examines dystopian apocalyptic writing from a comparative perspective through the analys...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-86).This project began out of curiosity about why our cul...
Excerpt from Introduction The Western mind has demonstrated a strange fascination of late, a fixatio...
The bachelor thesis deals with the theme of apocalypse, its causes and consequences for civilization...
The aim of this thesis is to examine the definitions and uses of apocalyptic rhetoric in contemporar...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apo...
In 1974, the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday clock, using the im...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apo...
In this essay, I firstly address the question of categories of apocalypse in literature, media and c...
This thesis discusses the connection between humanity and the ecosystem as they relate to modern sci...
This thesis analyzed common aspects of six major works of dystopian literature to assess their commo...
This is a book about an event that never happened, and the cultural, literary, political and histori...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2018In the recent rise of dystopic fiction, millenarianism...
Textual genre criticism and close readings of novels and films reveal that, in addition to chronicli...
The traumatic XXth century made humans believe their existence was getting close to an end. This wor...
This thesis examines dystopian apocalyptic writing from a comparative perspective through the analys...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-86).This project began out of curiosity about why our cul...
Excerpt from Introduction The Western mind has demonstrated a strange fascination of late, a fixatio...
The bachelor thesis deals with the theme of apocalypse, its causes and consequences for civilization...
The aim of this thesis is to examine the definitions and uses of apocalyptic rhetoric in contemporar...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apo...
In 1974, the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday clock, using the im...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apo...
In this essay, I firstly address the question of categories of apocalypse in literature, media and c...
This thesis discusses the connection between humanity and the ecosystem as they relate to modern sci...
This thesis analyzed common aspects of six major works of dystopian literature to assess their commo...
This is a book about an event that never happened, and the cultural, literary, political and histori...