The Representational Impasse of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace by Diletta De Cristofaro

“…Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse (2007) provides the ideal springboard for a discussion about the apocalypse and representation because the event remains unspecified, a gap in the story, suggesting the presence of epistemological limits. …”
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Odin's ravens / by Armstrong, Kelley, author, Marr, Melissa, author

“…When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendants of the gods band together to fight monsters, and Matt Thorsen and his friends must journey to the underworld to save a descendant…”

Pastoralne przesłanie komentarza św. Cezarego z Arles do Apokalipsy św. Jana by Paweł Wygralak

“…Caesarius of Arles on the Apocalypse of St. John. The bishop of Arles wrote his commentary on the basis of the Ticonius’s study. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Revisited: Memory and Language in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Kristjan Mavri

“…But the story does not end there, for the post-apocalypse is often a site of survival and of life in the aftermath and there is no situation like the bleak wasteland of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). …”
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El apocalipsis doméstico: El fin del mundo según Jaume Balagueró by Milagros Expósito Barea, Miguel Pérez-Gómez

“…Jaume Balagueró's cinematography is directly connected with Adam Parfrey´s  concept of "Apocalypse Culture". It is a very personal vision of the end of the world in everyday life context. …”
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Married with zombies : book 1 of living with the dead / by Petersen, Jesse

“…"While on a routine trip to their marriage counselor, Sarah and David notice a few strange things--like their counselor ripping out her previous client's throat--and now must fight for their survivial, not just their marriage, in the middle of a zombie apocalypse."…”

Good omens / by Pratchett, Terry, author, Gaiman, Neil, author

“…The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.…”

Eco-awareness as an antithesis of apocalyptic eco-phobia in Margaret Atwood’s (The Year of the Flood) by Yahya Al-Sammarraie, Amani Akram, Kaur, Hardev, Baha, Idar Baizura

“…The study focuses on apocalypse and eco-phobia as a motivation of the characters’ eco-awareness. …”

Lutheran Apocalyptic Imagery in the Orthodox Context by Anita Paolicchi

“…Dürer’s Apocalypse was undoubtedly the prototype for the many apocalyptic representations that suddenly appeared in Central Europe by the end of the sixteenth century: the influence of Dürer’s Apocalypse extended far beyond the German borders, towards Western, Southern and Eastern countries. …”
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Du post-apocalyptique au posthumain by Anne-Sophie Hillard

“…Yet the Gente also experience an apocalypse of their own and there are several of them throughout the novel. …”
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Dall’isola di Solentiname all’isola di Patmos: apocalissi (dis)velate by Susanna Nanni

“…In Cort·zarís short story, apocalypse does not emerge in the course of the narration but it anticipates the (uncertain) interpretation of the ending, manifesting itself as a ìfantasyî strategy. …”
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Hope as Religious Heritage by Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

“… The effects of climate change can evoke fear and a sense of apocalypse. Invoking the apocalypse in discourse about the future, however, can lead to denial or fatalism. …”
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Zombie-Themes Outbreak Films and World War Z (2013) by Barış Tolga Ekinci

“…As a matter of fact, many zombie-themed movies are presented as allegories of apocalypse or as outbreak-themed movies. What is the meaning of the zombies which are the subject of outbreak films? …”
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Left Behind : A Novel of the Earth's Last Days / by LaHaye, Tim F., author 394640, Jenkins, Jerry B., author 584376

“…For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun. This fictional account of life after the Rapture delivers an urgent call to today's readers to prepare their own hearts and minister to others.…”

GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DYSTOPIAS: THE REPRESENTATION OF DYSTOPIA IN THE UNIVERSE OF HIS ZOMBIE TRILOGY by Michał Zgorzałek

“…In the Living Dead Trilogy Romero skilfully used the zombie apocalypse motif to portray both vices as virtues characteristic to American way of life. …”
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Ultimi bagliori: l’apocalisse nella microfinzione ispanoamericana by Anna Boccuti

“…This paper focuses on the different representations of the Apocalypse in one of the literary genre which has greatly increased in Latin America during the last decades: the “microficción” or flash fiction. …”
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Imagining survivalistic alternatives to nihilistic visions of doom in Roland Emmerich’s disaster films by Lau, Song Leng

“…(Shift from nihilistic treatments, to survivalism) I consider ‘apocalypse’ in both the calamitous sense of the word, and the original Greek meaning of ‘uncovering’ and ‘revelation’. …”
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Apocalyptic Nostalgia in the Prologue of Don DeLillo’s Underworld by Randy Laist

“…Characters in Don DeLillo's novels repeatedly grapple with the existential contradiction which Frank Kermode has called the "immanent apocalypse" and which Jean Baudrillard has identified as a nuclear "implosion." …”
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Filmic Eco-warnings and Television: Rolf de Heer’s Epsilon (1995) and Dr. Plonk (2007) by D. Bruno Starrs

“…Plonk is imprisoned and makes a subtle, unspoken plea to the audience to get out from in front of their television sets and save the world from ecological apocalypse themselves. De Heer has expressed considerable disdain towards television but this paper suggests that to maximise reception of their eco-warnings the eco-conscious film-maker needs to recognise the potential of interactive television and other new media technologies to increase voter turnout and to effect the aversion of global apocalypse through audiences taking individual responsibility.…”
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Amtsal Kiamat Menurut Penafsiran Al-Zamakhsyari by Sufri Fahmi, Risman Bustamam

“…Al-Zamakshyari interprets the verses of the apocalypse verses using the tahlili method, which is indicated by language analysis indicators or balaghah which are quite focused and detailed when explaining the editorial of certain verses. …”
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