Everything must go : why we are obsessed with the end of the world
Lynskey, Dorian2025
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Human beings have been imagining the end of the world from the 'Book of Revelation' to 'Avengers: Age of Ultron.' Every generation imagines that its visions of the end times are new. Following his acclaimed, Baillie Gifford longlisted exploration of dystopian futures in 'The Ministry of Truth,' which investigated both the sources and inspirations of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and its current ubiquity in fiction, media and online, Dorian Lynskey investigates our fantasies of the end, across both high and popular culture, from the Reformation to the present.
Main title:
Everything must go : why we are obsessed with the end of the world / Dorian Lynskey.
Author:
Lynskey, Dorian, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2025.
Collation:
512 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529095951 (pbk)
Dewey class:
236.9
Language:
English
Subject:
End of the worldEnd of the world -- Social aspectsAsteroids -- Collisions with EarthClimatic changes -- Social aspectsNuclear warfare -- Social aspectsPandemics -- Social aspectsEnd of the world in literatureApocalyptic literature -- History and criticismApocalyptic films -- History and criticismApocalyptic television programs -- History and criticismReligionBiography: literaryLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersReligion & beliefsPhilosophy of religion
BRN:
1644283
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