Living Beyond the End: Exploring Postapocalypse and Postmodernism
Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Mentor
Shea Stuart
Abstract
Excerpt from Introduction
The Western mind has demonstrated a strange fascination of late, a fixation on “The End” of things. To be more precise, this fascination centers on the peculiar notion of living beyond The End. On the face of it this seems a nonsensical concept. After all, is not the end of something firmly fixed, a point beyond which one cannot possibly go? Despite the confusion this notion may invite, lately the West has been transfixed by a genre of fiction which rests upon the very idea of outliving the end of everything, the end of the world. It is a genre characterized by plagues, wars, desolate plains, skeletal cities, zombies, marauders, and monsters: the Postapocalyptic genre.
Citation Information
Hilton, Aaron G., "Living Beyond the End: Exploring Postapocalypse and Postmodernism" (2018). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 29.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/undergrad-honors/29