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Author:   Joe Trotta ,  Zlatan Filipovic ,  Houman Sadri
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780367235918

ISBN 10:   0367235919
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   11 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Welcome to the Beginning of the End of Everything Joe Trotta and Houman Sadri Chapter 1: A Light that Never Goes Out: Bare Life and the Possibility of Ethics in McCarthy’s The Road Zlatan Filipovic Chapter 2: Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science Fiction Series 3% Michael Godhe Chapter 3: Hopeful Hybridities: Transformative Interspecies Relationships in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Visual Narratives Ariel Khan Chapter 4: Dystopia and Utopia After Darwin: Using Evolution to Explain Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming Race Emelie Jonsson Chapter 5: Is this the Futu.re?: Russian Cosmism and the Construction of an Immor(t)al Utopia Iril Hove Ullestad Chapter 6: The Mexican Sicario Against the End of the World Gabriela Mercado Chapter 7: Post-apocalyptic Play: Representations of the End of the City in Video Games Emma Fraser Chapter 8: The Future in Ruins: The Uses of Derelict Buildings and Monuments in Post-Apocalyptic Film and Literature Jerry Määttä Chapter 9: The Zombie as a Pronoun: What Pronouns are Used and Why? Linda Flores Ohlson Chapter 10: What can a corpus tell us about Apocalyptic/Dystopian Texts Joe Trotta Chapter 11: Original Sin as Salvation: The Apocalyptic Boon in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Houman Sadri

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Joe Trotta is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Joe’s research has shifted from traditional linguistics to focusing nearly exclusively on the use of English in popular media. He is the founder and chair of the [GotPop] Research Group and the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast. Dr. Zlatan Filipovic is Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London and has published extensively on deconstruction and affect in literary writing. Houman Sadri is a PhD candidate and teacher of English Literature, at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast.

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