Contents

Contents
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LEONA ARCHER AND ALEX STUART, WITH DARON BURROWS
Introduction
PART
DARON BURROWS
la fin
la
End of
World
According to the Medieval French Prose Apocalypse
NIGEL MORGAN
Three French Fourteenth-Century Apocalypses as
Reinterpretations of English Thirteenth-Century Predecessors
ADELINE LIONETTO-HESTERS
From Pastoral Dream to Apocalyptic Reverie
69
KATHRYN BANKS
Apocalypse and Literature in the Sixteenth Century:
Case of Rabelais and the Frozen Words
Visions of apocalypse
cop. 2013
83
digitalisiert durch
IDS Basel/Bern, im Auftrag der
Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek
NATHAN PARKER
Proselytism and Apocalypticism in England Before and
After the Act of Toleration of
French Threat
and a Lone Puritan
99
PART 2
MICHEL AROUIMI
Rimbaud's Apocalypse: Founding Principles and
Literary Repercussions (Bosco, Ramuz)
MARIE
Eschatology in the Poetry o f Charles Péguy
MARIA MANUEL LISBOA
This World is Not the Case: Apocalypse in J.H. Rosny
JENNIFER RUSHWORTH
'Alors la résurrection aura prisfin':Visions of the End in Proust's
A la Recherche du temps perdu
Georges Bataille or the Theory and Fiction of
PART 3
Visions
Post-1945
ANA-MARIA M ' E N E S T I
Dialectics of Apocalyptic Imagery in Eugène
Plays
LARA COX
Absurd Visions of the Apocalypse: Adamov, Arrabal and
Ionesco and a Politics of Spectatorship for the Postmodern Age
SUSANNAH ELLIS
Writing in the Aftermath: The Figure of the Untermensch
in Antoine
Des Anges mineurs
207
TONY THORSTRÖM
The Corporeal Apocalypse: Antagonistic Visions of the Human
Body in Michel
La Possibilité d'une île (2005)
ANGUS MACDONALD
New French Horror and the End of the World As We It
233
Notes on Contributors
247
Index
253