Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left Behind series / Jennie Chapman.

By: Chapman, JennieMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781621039891Subject(s): LaHaye, Tim F. Left behind series | Apocalypse in literature | Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism | Rapture (Christian eschatology)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3562.A315 | L44335 2013Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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