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Angels and Demons in the Book of Jubilees and Contemporary Apocalypses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The apocalypse literary genre creates a reader expectation of the apocalyptic worldview. The Book of Jubilees uses the apocalypse genre to express a worldview that diverges significantly from the cluster of views typically conveyed by the apocalypse ...
Todd Hanneken
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Distortion, Messianism, and Apocalyptic Time in The Satanic Verses

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2013
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses presents its readers with a striking perspective on apocalypse. Taking place in the context of a modernist, migrant worldview, this apocalypse works to unsettle its participating characters by teaching them how ...
Clara Eisinger
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Convergências entre a Curadoria Digital e o Design da Informação no contexto pós custodial da Ciência da Informação

open access: yesEncontros Bibli, 2021
Objetivo: Identificar as aproximações entre a Curadoria Digital (CD) e o Design da Informação (DI) no contexto da Ciência da Informação (CI) e pontuar as contribuições dessas convergências para a eficiência e a eficácia da curadoria da informação em ...
Maria Jorente   +2 more
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Performances dell'Apocalisse nella letteratura e nel cinema postmoderno

open access: yesMantichora, 2020
This paper observes the relationship between word and image, literature and cinema into the description and the visualization of the cultural object of Apocalypse in Postmodernism.
Mirko Lino
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Video Nasty: The Moral Apocalypse in Koji Suzuki’s Ring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Although overshadowed by its filmic adaptations (Hideo Nakata, 1998 and Gore Verbinski, 2002), Koji Suzuki’s novel Ring (1991) is at the heart of the international explosion of interest in Japanese horror.
Berriman Ian   +13 more
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The Dialectics of Crisis: The Romanticised Apocalypse in J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World and Lars von Trier’s

open access: yesDiffractions, 2013
The theme of the apocalyptic is often portrayed through films and literature in a pessimistic manner. The crisis of the end of the world, unsurprisingly, is culturally and societally deemed as the ultimate manifestation of catastrophe.
Siobhan Lyons
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Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

open access: yesAngles, 2021
Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world.
Munir Ahmed Al-Aghberi
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Gaming the heart of darkness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The history of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been one of adaptation and change. The enduring story is based upon Conrad’s experiences in the Congo in the 1890s and has been published as a novella in 1902.
Donald, Iain, Pittner, Fruzsina
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Apocalypses and the Sage. Different Endings of the World in Seneca [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper deals with apocalypse, intended as a revelation or prediction related to the end of the world, in Seneca’s prose work. The descriptions and readings of this event appear to be quite different from each other. My analysis will
Berno, FRANCESCA ROMANA
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The Byzantine apocalyptic tradition a fourteenth-century Serbian version of the Apocalypse of Anastasia [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2011
Early translations of the Apocalypse of Anastasia into Old Church Slavonic appear in several versions incorporated into miscellanies of the zbornik (collection) type. These texts belong to various genres of religious prose and are usually assembled in
Marjanović-Dušanić Smilja
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