Broken Mirrors

Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture
Herausgeber: Trotta, Joe; Sadri, Houman; Filipovic, Zlatan

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Produktbeschreibung

Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new, but in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in this theme in literature, art, comic books, video games, and TV shows. This volume investigates this pervasive theme through a critical analysis of works from a variety of disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780367235918
• ISBN-10: 0367235919
• Artikelnr.: 58314237

Autorenporträt

Joe Trotta is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Joe's research has shifted from traditional linguistics to focusing nearly exclusively on the use of English in popular media. He is the founder and chair of the [GotPop] Research Group and the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast. Dr. Zlatan Filipovic is Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London and has published extensively on deconstruction and affect in literary writing. Houman Sadri is a PhD candidate and teacher of English Literature, at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Welcome to the Beginning of the End of Everything
Joe Trotta and Houman Sadri
Chapter 1: A Light that Never Goes Out: Bare Life and the Possibility of
Ethics in McCarthy's The Road
Zlatan Filipovic
Chapter 2: Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science
Fiction Series 3%
Michael Godhe
Chapter 3: Hopeful Hybridities: Transformative Interspecies Relationships
in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Visual Narratives
Ariel Khan
Chapter 4: Dystopia and Utopia After Darwin: Using Evolution to Explain
Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Coming Race
Emelie Jonsson
Chapter 5: Is this the Futu.re?: Russian Cosmism and the Construction of an
Immor(t)al Utopia
Iril Hove Ullestad
Chapter 6: The Mexican Sicario Against the End of the World
Gabriela Mercado
Chapter 7: Post-apocalyptic Play: Representations of the End of the City in
Video Games
Emma Fraser
Chapter 8: The Future in Ruins: The Uses of Derelict Buildings and
Monuments in Post-Apocalyptic Film and Literature
Jerry Määttä
Chapter 9: The Zombie as a Pronoun: What Pronouns are Used and Why?
Linda Flores Ohlson
Chapter 10: What can a corpus tell us about Apocalyptic/Dystopian Texts
Joe Trotta
Chapter 11: Original Sin as Salvation: The Apocalyptic Boon in Philip
Pullman's His Dark Materials
Houman Sadri