Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left Behind series /
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2013.
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Table of 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.