Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739117910
Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.