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The End of the World
Southern Illinois University Press, 1983 eISBN: 978-0-8093-8339-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8093-1033-3 Library of Congress Classification PN3433.6.E6 1983 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.3876
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The essays selected by the editors to explore these apocalyptic visions are: “The Remaking of Zero: Beginning at the End,” by Gary K. Wolfe; “The Lone Survivor,” by Robert Plank; “Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End,” by Robert Galbreath; “World’s End: The Imagination of Catastrophe,” by W. Warren Wagar; “Man-Made Catastrophes,” by Brian Stableford; and “The Rebellion of Nature,” by W. Warren Wagar. Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narratives a central attraction—“the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world.” This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can annihilate humanity. See other books on: End | End of the world in literature | Rabkin, Eric S | Science fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy See other titles from Southern Illinois University Press |
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The End of the World
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Southern Illinois University Press, 1983
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8339-9
Cloth: 978-0-8093-1033-3
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8339-9
Cloth: 978-0-8093-1033-3
The essays selected by the editors to explore these apocalyptic visions are: “The Remaking of Zero: Beginning at the End,” by Gary K. Wolfe; “The Lone Survivor,” by Robert Plank; “Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End,” by Robert Galbreath; “World’s End: The Imagination of Catastrophe,” by W. Warren Wagar; “Man-Made Catastrophes,” by Brian Stableford; and “The Rebellion of Nature,” by W. Warren Wagar.
Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narratives a central attraction—“the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world.” This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can annihilate humanity.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
