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Author: P. Corcoran Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230597319 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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The current obsession with the 'end of the millennium' illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking. Opening a path of understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the sceptical predicates of modern science, Awaiting Apocalypse shows how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning.
Author: P. Corcoran Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230597319 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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The current obsession with the 'end of the millennium' illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking. Opening a path of understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the sceptical predicates of modern science, Awaiting Apocalypse shows how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning.
Author: Veronica Chater Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393073548 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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Growing up Catholic in a family where the reforms of Vatican II are seen as the work of Satan. It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol, sells everything, and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima. But Portugal is no Catholic utopia, and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings, serving meals to religious soldiers, breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream, she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern—clothes, movies, or music. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.
Author: Kevin Mills Publisher: Bucknell University Press ISBN: 9780838756270 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 234
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"Written for scholars and students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels with an interest in modern literary studies, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in the Victorian era, biblical studies, the history of ideas, literature and myth, and theology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003815952 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 151
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This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos’—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings’ of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene’s decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates ‘cosmos’ as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and postcolonial, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies.
Author: Jonathan M. Vick Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781490554068 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 124
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Stage play. 5 M, 2 W. One set. Two acts. "I saw a storm coming from the North, a vast cloud with flashes of fire and brilliant light around it; and within it was a radiance like brass, glowing in the heart of the flames. In the fire was the semblance of four living creatures in human form . . ." -- Ezekiel 1:4 In a diner of the small town of Smithereens, three of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse wait, restlessly, for the Fourth Horseman to arrive and begin the end of the world. Cameron, a single man with aspirations of falling in love, stumbles into the diner, chasing a girl whom he has never met and, unwittingly, becomes that Fourth Horseman. As the others try to talk this Fourth Horseman into following his dream and talking to the girl, the other three slowly begin to realize what the Apocalypse is all about ... that it has already begun, and that if they don't do something quickly, it will pass them by. "What is the Apocalypse? Is it fire and brimstone and dieties passing judgement? Or is it just you and me ... giving up?" The end of the world has never been like this before.
Author: Dean Koontz Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0345533585 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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“Koontz gives [Odd Thomas] wit, good humor, a familiarity with the dark side of humanity—and moral outrage.”—USA Today Once presided over by a Roaring ’20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants—and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably charming traveling companion. Fresh from a harrowing clash with lethal adversaries, they welcome their host’s hospitality. But Odd’s extraordinary eye for the uncanny detects disturbing secrets that could make Roseland more hell than haven. Soon enough the house serves up a taste of its terrors, as Odd begins to unravel the darkest mystery of his curious career. What consequences await those who confront evil at its most profound? Odd only knows. “Odd Thomas is the greatest character Dean Koontz has ever created. He’s funny, humble, immensely likable, courageous, and just a joy to read about.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer “[Odd Thomas is] one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction.”—The Virginian-Pilot “Supernatural thrills with a side of laughs.”—The Denver Post
Author: Veronica Chater Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393066037 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 331
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Recounts the author's unusual early life growing up in a large, very conservative Catholic family soon after the changes resulting from the Second Vatican Council, dealing with the family's extreme reaction to these changes with humor and openness.
Author: Ben H. Winters Publisher: Quirk Books ISBN: 1594745773 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 299
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"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Ebook contains an excerpt from the anticipated second book in the trilogy, Countdown City.
Author: P. Corcoran
Author: P. Corcoran
Author: Veronica Chater
Author: Ben Jones
Author: Kevin Mills
Author: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
Author: Jonathan M. Vick
Author: Daniel Cohen
Author: Dean Koontz
Author: Veronica Chater
Author: Ben H. Winters