TY  - BOOK
AU  - Payne,Mark
TI  - Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction 
SN  - 9780691206400
AV  - PN56.A69 
U1  - 809.39372 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Apocalypse in literature
KW  - Apocalyptic fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Dystopias in literature
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - History
KW  - End of the world in literature
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Apocalypse and Post-Politics
KW  - Claire Curtis
KW  - Gilgamesh
KW  - Heather Hicks
KW  - Hesiod
KW  - John Hay
KW  - Margaret Atwood
KW  - Mary Manjikian
KW  - Mary Shelley
KW  - Post-Apocalyptic Culture
KW  - Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature
KW  - Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract
KW  - Teresa Heffernan
KW  - Terminal Vision: The Literature of Last Things
KW  - The Last Man
KW  - The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century
KW  - Ursula Le Guin
KW  - Warren Wagar
KW  - ancient
KW  - apocalypse
KW  - catastrophe
KW  - civilization
KW  - freedom
KW  - maroon
KW  - memory
KW  - myth
KW  - nature
KW  - pastoral
KW  - philosophical training
KW  - primitive
KW  - survival practice
KW  - survival
KW  - survivalist anthropology
KW  - survivalist fiction
KW  - the apocalyptic cosmos
KW  - zombie
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Postapocalyptic Pastoral --; 1. The Apocalyptic Cosmos --; 2. The Persistence of Memory --; 3. Survivalist Anthropology --; Conclusion: Landscape with Figures --; Works Cited --; Index --; A Note on the Type; restricted access
N2  - An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction—stories set after civilization’s destruction—is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from antiquity to the present, Flowers of Time reveals how postapocalyptic fiction differs from other genres—pastoral poetry, science fiction, and the maroon narrative—that also explore human capabilities beyond the constraints of civilization. Mark Payne places postapocalyptic fiction into conversation with such theorists as Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Carl Schmitt, illustrating how the genre functions as political theory in fictional form.Payne shows that rather than argue for a particular way of life, postapocalyptic literature reveals what it would be like to inhabit that life. He considers the genre’s appeal in our own historical moment, contending that this fiction is the pastoral of our time. Whereas the pastoralist and the maroon could escape to real-world hills and fashion their own versions of freedom, on a fully owned and occupied Earth, only an apocalyptic event can create a space where such freedoms are feasible once again.Flowers of Time looks at how fictional narratives set after the world’s devastation represent new conditions and possibilities for life and humanity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691206400?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691206400
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