โ Scribed by Rosen, Elizabeth K.;
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Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 -- SENTIENT VEGETABLE CLAIMS END IS NEAR! -- NOTES -- 2 -- BLUE-FOOTED BOOBIES AND OTHER WITNESSES TO THE END -- NOTES -- 3 -- A TORTURED STATE OF MIND -- NOTES -- 4 -- APOCALYPSE RELOADED -- NOTES -- 5 -- WILLINGLY BELIEVING FICTION -- NOTES -- 6 -- ALL THE EXPENDED FAITH -- NOTES -- EPILOGUE -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.;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.
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