Rethinking Environmentalism and Apocalypse: Anamorphosis in The Book of Enoch and Climate Fiction

Biblical apocalypse has long been a source of contention in environmental criticism. Typically, ecocritical readings of Biblical apocalypse rely on a definition of the genre focused on eschatological themes related to species annihilation precipitated by the judgement of the world and the end of tim...

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Authors: Kotva, Simone (Author) ; Mebius, Eva-Charlotta (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 8
Further subjects:B The Book of Enoch
B jolyon pruszinski
B Timothy Morton
B Apocalypse
B Attention
B Jean-Luc Marion
B Megan Hunter
B climate fiction
B Ecotheology
B Temporality
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