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... narrative, which looked forward to Christ's return as—technically speaking—its catastrophe, when all the confusion and unhappiness of the universal plot would be unravelled and total clarity would reign. The author of the Old English Doomsday poem called Christ III , however, devised an ingenious strategy...

... that Doomsday might not come, and that the poetics of wasteful excess might be a truer response to the catastrophe of history than the aesthetic balance that falsely mirrors cosmic harmony, is more troubling than Doomsday itself. Apocalyptic prophecies, with their formal tension between list...

... the extent or, importantly, the causes of ecological catastrophe. Its forms suggest that creation's compassion for Christ's suffering actually results in violent self-destruction—a suggestion that troubles twenty-first-century narratives of ecological catastrophe and human responsibility. Although the motif...

...: The Devil in Old English Narrative Litera- ture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii, 196 pp. $50.00, paper $22.95. Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. Paradise, Death, and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 32. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press...