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Author Chapman, Jennie.

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

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography 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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2013).
Subject LaHaye, Tim F. Left behind series.
Apocalypse in literature.
Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Rapture (Christian eschatology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781617039034
9781621039891 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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