Visions of Apocalypse Representations of the End in French Literature and Culture 1st Edition Leona Archer ,Alex Stuart ISBN 303430921X 978-3034309219

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ISBN 10:303430921X 

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Author:Leona Archer ,Alex Stuart

Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This groundbreaking collection of essays offers an overview of the Apocalyptic imagination as it presents itself in French literature and culture from the thirteenth century to the present day. The contributors analyse material as diverse as medieval French biblical commentaries and twenty-first-century science fiction, taking in established canonical authors alongside contemporary figures and less well-known writers. The book also considers a vast range of other subject matter, including horror films, absurdist drama, critical theory, medieval manuscript illuminations and seventeenth-century theology. Moving from the sacred to the profane, the sublime to the obscene, the divine to the post-human, the volume opens up more than 750 years of French Apocalypticism to critical scrutiny.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 
Daron Burrows ‘Vers la fin croistra la religion’: The End of the World
According to the Medieval French Prose Apocalypse 
Nigel Morgan
Three French Fourteenth-Century Apocalypses as
Reinterpretations of English Thirteenth-Century Predecessors 
Adeline Lionetto-Hesters
Ronsard’s Bergerie: From Pastoral Dream to Apocalyptic Reverie 
Kathryn Banks
Apocalypse and Literature in the Sixteenth Century:The Case of Rabelais and the Frozen Words 
Nathan Parker
Proselytism and Apocalypticism in England Before and
After the Act of Toleration of 1689: The French Threat and a Lone Puritan 
Part 2 
Michel Arouimi
Rimbaud’s Apocalypse: Founding Principles and
Literary Repercussions (Bosco, Ramuz) 
Marie Vélikano
Eschatology in the Poetry of Charles Péguy 
Maria Manuel Lisboa
This World is Not the Case: Apocalypse in J.H. Rosny Ainé 
Jennifer Rushworth
‘Alors la résurrection aura pris fin’: Visions of the End in Proust’s
A la Recherche du temps perdu 
Crispin Lee
Georges Bataille or the Theory and Fiction of Apocalyptic Visions 
Part 3 
Ana-Maria M’Enesti
Dialectics of Apocalyptic Imagery in Eugène Ionesco’s Plays 
Lara Cox
Absurd Visions of the Apocalypse: Adamov, Arrabal and
Ionesco and a Politics of Spectatorship for the Postmodern Age 
Susannah Ellis
Writing in the Aftermath: The Figure of the Untermensch
in Antoine Volodine’s Des Anges mineurs 
Tony Thorström
The Corporeal Apocalypse: Antagonistic Visions of the Human
Body in Michel Houellebecq’s La Possibilité d’une île (2005) 
Angus MacDonald
New French Horror and the End of the World As We Know It 
Notes on Contributors 

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