Thehaunting presence of memories and dreams from an unregenerate past society thoroughly permeate the action Cormac McCarthy’s vision post-apocalypse in The Road. Besides intention contrasting barrenness world that protagonists inhabit with livelyimagery old world, recollections invade father’s inner self provide a clash between personal collective narratives which push him to struggle for surv...

Narratives of the Anthropocene function in realm not only scientific but also popular discourses. Indeed, most narratives Anthropocene, namely story apocalypse and progress, with their respective temporalities, are particularly well-represented comics. The present article looks at through lenses word image, tracing response medium comics to ongoing catastrophe, including Joe Sacco’s Paying Land...

There are certain editions of the New Testament which by way of appendix contain the Psalter, an arrangement obviously intended to serve the convenience of devotion. It has, however, the curious result of bringing the Apocalypse and the Psalms into immediate proximity. On first thought it might seem that scarcely two more diverse things could be put together. The storm-ridden landscape of the A...

Science fiction (SF) developed as a self-identified genre in Japan the 1950s and quickly underwent boom 1960s. Throughout this period, SF literature, film, television were tightly intertwined industries, sharing production personnel, textual tropes, audiences. As these industries entered global circulation with hope of finding recognition success international community, however, they encounter...