...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. By Peter Y. Paik. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. 207 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save...

... of racial apocalypse diametrically opposed to what would come to be known as Manifest Destiny—one resonant with contemporaneous Amerindian prophetic movements—but also challenges the literalist hermeneutics that found warrant for Euro-Christian colonization in the transcendental authority of “the Bible...

...: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xii, 392 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $25.00. From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction . By Timothy Parrish. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2008. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. Book Reviews Freedom’s...

...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction . By William H. Katerberg. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas. 2008. ix, 281 pp. $45.00. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women . By Jeffrey...

...Arlene R. Keizer Duke University Press 2000 Arlene R. The Geographyof the Apocalypse: Keizer Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington Cityin Carolivia Herron’s...

...Michael Bérubé Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay examines a variety of visions of apocalypse and civilizational collapse, asking how we can imagine a world without us (as in Alan Weisman’s book of that title), or whether we will merely eke out a post–climate disaster...

...John Whalen-Bridge Duke University Press 2002 John Some Versions of the Cold War Whalen- Bridge Cold War Poetry. By Edward Brunner. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xxi, 300 pp. $29.95. The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs...

... is a vital formal resource for unsettling colonial realism in the contemporary United States. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 risk Anthropocene nuclear waste apocalypse Native American literature If contemporary ecocriticism has a shared premise about environmental risk...

...–829. Hickman, Jared, and Peter Coviello. “Introduction: After the Postsecular,” 645–54. Hickman, Jared. “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” 429–61. Howard, Kathleen. “Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction,” 463–92. Hutchison, Coleman. Review: Benson, Disturbing...

... of climate apocalypse: they never proved it, but we know. some of the hand-waving women had always known. some of the metaphysicians had been trying to say. no one took them literally. until the earth broke apart. and then. with the probe technology, with the accurate diagrams. with the skilled cave...

... in melancholy and allegoresis. Offering poesies as an alternative, Bové begins with a genealogy of “messianism, apocalypse and allegory” before arguing that works by Wallace Stevens, Rembrandt, and William Shakespeare allow intellectuals to “embrace, defend, and learn from poetry and criticism.” The book ends...

... and artists—from canonical fig- ures to Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Bob Dylan, Ma Rainey, Frank Zappa, and Moby (great-great-great grandson of Melville)—as well as cultural landmarks ranging from Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music to Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The cocktail-party...

... solutions ever intelligently contemplate systemic racism? Flint is not an outlier: proximity to disaster, write the editors of ASAP/Journal ’s “Apocalypse” special issue, “depend[s] as much on a privileged access to resources as on geographical location” (Hurley and Sinykin 2018 : 453). Across...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...

... influences of digital technology and expand the object of our discipline’s study from “Literature” to “the literary.” Erin Gentry Lamb, Hiram College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-082 Book Reviews 223 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction...