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Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left behind series

Title
Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left behind series / Jennie Chapman.
Author
Chapman, Jennie.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

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Description
viii, 253 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • LaHaye, Tim F
  • Christian fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Rapture (Christian eschatology)
  • Apocalypse in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cracking the prophecy code: reading as an act of agency -- The paranoia of plot: narrative, conspiracy, and agency -- "What a show!" apocalyptic spectacle and the agency of watching -- "In the world but not of it": agency and social engagement -- A very American apocalypse: Left Behind's neoliberal end-times vision -- The revelation will be televised: media, celebrity, and authority in Left Behind -- Negotiated agency: female subjectivities at the end of history -- Queering the apocalypse: homosocial, homophobic, and homoerotic subjectivities in Left Behind -- Conclusion: Both now and not yet: reading in the shadow of the rapture.
Call Number
JFE 13-8592
ISBN
  • 9781617039034 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1617039039 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781617039041 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013011731
OCLC
837957658
Author
Chapman, Jennie.
Title
Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left behind series / Jennie Chapman.
Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Chapman, Jennie. Plotting apocalypse. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 9781617039041 (DLC) 2013015891
Research Call Number
JFE 13-8592
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