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02632aam a2200337 i 4500 001 E9B3CFDCB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200617010021 008 190626s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019023693 020 $a 1571139893 020 $a 9781571139894 035 $a (OCoLC)1108806979 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a BL501 $b .E535 2019 082 00 $a 830.9/382360902 $2 23 245 04 $a The end-times in medieval German literature : $b sin, evil, and the Apocalypse / $c edited by Ernst Ralf Hintz and Scott E. Pincikowski. 264 1 $a Rochester : $b Camden House, $c 2019. 300 $a viii, 292 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The contemporary fascination with the end of the world and of life as we know it would not have surprised our counterparts a millennium ago; only the fact that such an end has not yet occurred. Current visions of the apocalypse encompass climate change, terrorism, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and war. Popular culture expresses the fear associated with these global crises, obsessively portraying zombies, alien attacks, pandemics, and self-destructive technology. This book explores how end-times were envisioned in medieval Germany. The essays, written by well-established scholars, examine the period's fascination with the apocalypse by applying the most current methodological approaches to a wide range of literary genres. Drawing upon methodologies such as adaptation theory, gender analysis, space and place studies, reception studies, and memory studies, this book uncovers the rhetorical, didactic, narratological, mnemonic, thematic, cultural, and political functions of end-times in medieval German texts. Contributors: Tina Boyer, Albrecht Classen, Winfried Frey, Will Hasty, Ernst Ralf Hintz, Winder McConnell, Evelyn Meyer, Scott E. Pincikowski, Marian E. Polhill, Alexander Sager, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Joseph M. Sullivan. Ernst Ralf Hintz is Professor of German and Medieval Studies at Truman State University. Scott E. Pincikowski is Professor of German at Hood College"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Apocalyptic literature. 650 0 $a German literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x History and criticism. 700 1 $a Hintz, Ernst Ralf, $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020021523.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E9B3CFDCB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search