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Plotting apocalypse

Chapman, Jennie.

Plotting apocalypse reading, agency, and identity in the Left Behind series / [electronic resource] : Jennie Chapman. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

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.

9781621039891 1621039897


LaHaye, Tim F. Left behind series.


Apocalypse in literature.
Rapture (Christian eschatology)
Christian fiction, American--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS3562.A315 / L44335 2013

813/.54