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" Visions of apocalypse : "
Leona Archer and Alex Stuart, editors
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BL
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649239
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Visions of apocalypse : : representations of the end in French literature and culture /\ Leona Archer and Alex Stuart, editors
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Modern French identities ;; 111
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vii, 254 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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9783034309219
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: 303430921X
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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'Vers la fin croistra la religion': The End of the World According to the Medieval French Prose Apocalypse -- Three French Fourteenth-Century Apocalypses as Reinterpretations of English Thirteenth-Century Predecessors -- Ronsard's Bergerie: From Pastoral Dream to Apocalyptic Reverie -- Apocalypse and Literature in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Rabelais and the Frozen Words -- Proselytism and Apocalypticism in England Before and After the Act of Toleration of 1689: The French Threat and a Lone Puritan -- Rimbaud's Apocalypse: Founding Principles and Literary Repercussions (Bosco, Ramuz) -- Eschatology in the Poetry of Charles Peguy -- This World is Not the Case: Apocalypse in J.H. Rosny Aine -- 'Alors la resurrection aura pris fin': Visions of the End in Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu -- Georges Bataille or the Theory and Fiction of Apocalyptic Visions -- Dialectics of Apocalyptic Imagery in Eugene Ionesco's Plays -- Absurd Visions of the Apocalypse: Adamov, Arrabal and Ionesco and a Politics of Spectatorship for the Postmodern Age -- Writing in the Aftermath: The Figure of the Untermensch in Antoine Volodine's Des Anges mineurs -- The Corporeal Apocalypse: Antagonistic Visions of the Human Body in Michel Houellebecq's La Possibilite d'une ile (2005) -- New French Horror and the End of the World As We Know It
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Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This groundbreaking collection of essays offers an overview of the Apocalyptic imagination as it presents itself in French literature and culture from the thirteenth century to the present day
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Authors, French, Biography
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Erotic literature
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French literature
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Archer, Leona
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Stuart, Alex, (Writer on French literature)
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