The Liminal Epistemology of Apocalyptic Disability in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Fences by مجدة عطية

“…They highlight the effaced role of African reality in proposing liminality as a valid epistemology to destabilize the presumed pattern that shapes the traditional Apocalypse. So, Wilson’s dramaturgy visualizes an Apocalyptic disability that maintains a liminal construction, being a projection of various social and cultural experiences, a missing gap in Wilson’s scholarship. …”
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Il mondo finisce a Rio: «Demônios» di Aluísio Azevedo by Giorgio De Marchis

“…The text – unrelated to the naturalistic production of the author – describes a catastrophic nightmare, a carioca apocalypse reverting the evolutionary process and affecting the only two survivors, whose lives revert until they dissolve themselves in an aerial entity floating in the space. …”
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L’écran de fumée des incendies de la Commune de 1871 by Hélène Lewandowski

“…At that time these burnings were compared to the Apocalypse and the Insurgents who started them to Barbarians decided to bury all signs of civilization. …”
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Obraz Wschodu w powieściach historycznych Kazimierza Korkozowicza by Dawid Kopa

“… The article presents the image of the East in historical novels by Kazimierz Korkozowicz, including the works of the author of Jeźdźcy apokalipsy (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), published in the period between 1970–1990. …”
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Notorious: Hitchcock’s good neighbor film Notorious: Hitchcock’s good neighbor film by Arlindo Castro

“…l To overcome that fear of the nuclear apocalypse, according to the add, readers should learn more and more about “the big mysteries of our atomic age,” beginning by checking her or his score in the “Time’s
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Make America Great Again as White Political Theology by S. Romi Mukherjee

“…More troubling is how this “spiritual war” articulates itself in the new culture wars and, for some, the inauguration of a geo-political apocalypse which finally resolves the clash of civilizations. …”
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The ‘End’ of the Maya Long Count? 2012 and the Classic Maya by Erik Boot

“…The second meeting of the AISI (Associazione Italiana Studi Iberoamericani) was dedicated to “Apocalypse” in Latin American literature. In the year of 2012 this particular subject was chosen as various non- and pseudo-scientific and New Age publications hold that the Maya Long Count ends in 2012, more specifically on December 21. …”
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Temps deraisonnables, espace etrange : une lecture du roman Le fidèle Berger d'Alexandre Vialatte by Dominique Rougé

“…The time that the hero lives in is that of the apocalypse, the time of the fall of his country. It is the writer's artistic talent that has made a novel out of this and not a psychopathological account.…”
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The Impacts of 'Coronavirus' and Probable Outcomes: A South Asian Perspective by Muhammad Jamaluddin, Saad Jamal, Mah Noor

“… Widespread atrocities may lead to an apocalypse to be faced by the entire global community if not addressed at the earliest. …”
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Narrative Structure and Ideology. Eisenstein in Saving Private Ryan by Laura Fernández-Ramírez, Ignacio Nevado

“…The film presents events characteristic of the classical model of the World War II combat subgenre, but its articulation is unforeseen and evidences authorial action as in the critical model of Vietnam, specifically as in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979). This contrast integrates citizens of different ideological persuasions. …”
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What the Thunder really said: T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ as a proto-Necrocene by Samuel Joseph Higson-Blythe

“…Herein I discuss Eliot’s poem as pre-empting Justin McBrien’s notion of a Necrocene, an epoch defined by capitalist accumulation hurling humanity towards the apocalypse. Though the Necrocene itself is a widely acknowledged and established concept, its use in exploring literature, within and without of the canon, is reasonably rare. …”
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Desvelando al Perú: La revelación de las Grandes Miradas by Elena Guichot Muñoz

“…Reality and mythology are mixed to light a Postmodern Apocalypse, embodied in the struggle of ordinary people against dictatorships disguised by the absolute power.…”
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Eco-catastrofe e ricostruzione di un futuro plurale in Juan Buscamares di Félix Vega by Federica Moscatelli

“…Specifically, we will emphasise how in this Chilean graphic novel space is given to the community dimension to reconstruct an imaginary alternative future after the apocalypse.…”
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Do grapes produce blood? A problematic metaphor in biblical texts by Dr. Mark Wilson

“…The failure to understand the metaphor in the harvest imagery of Revelation, particularly in 14:20, has contributed to the perception that the Apocalypse endorses extreme violence. The article proposes a different translation of the verse based on the conclusion that grapes do not produce blood.…”
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Yeats, Cuchulain e la fine del ciclo by Dario Calimani

“…The annihilation of the Cuchulain myth and its central event, at the end of Yeats’s life, seems to be pointing to the end of all ideals in a final apocalypse devoid of any possible eternal return.…”
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پنجابی ادبِ سیرت میں نثر نگاری کا تحلیلی جائزہ by Muhammad Farooq Iqbal, Sadia Sardar

“… When the composition of "biography" is used, it is terminologically meant to describe the good life of the Prophet of the Apocalypse. This narration was started in his presence, which was present in the conversations of his Companions. …”
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El caos en los barrios de la frontera en la obra narrativa de L. H. Crosthwaite by Mara Donat

“…If apocalypse is a metaphor of the end and the beginning of an age, collapse of cultural, political and social concepcions, construction of new identities and social realities, literature of “frontera norte de México” is good to realize an investigation of the biblical and mythical theme in postmodern sence. …”
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“Una visión pegada a las pupilas”: perspectivas apocalípticas en la poesía chilena de la crisis by Martina Bortignon

“…Drawing from the Apocalypse the idea of a writing devoted to showing, through a revelation, the divine project in the contemporaneity of the community this message is meant for, as the original function of this prophetic genre was, in this essay I aim at studying the testimonial dimension in two Chilean poetry works: El sermón de la montaña (1970) by Raúl Zurita y Diario de navegación (1986) by Tomás Harris. …”
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Versatilidad política del paradigma apocalíptico: tres variantes contemporáneas by Ilaria Magnani

“…In the Western tradition the term 'apocalypse' combines the etymological meaning of both revelation and disclosure with the cataclysm foretold. …”
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Introductory Comments by Jolanta Sujecka

“… The 11th issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2022) contains a thematic block titled The Sense of an Ending and the Imagination of the End: Apocalypse, Disaster and Messianic Time. In the Discussions, Book Reviews, Presentations section, we publish two reviews of outstanding publications. …”
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