Modernism, Christianity, and apocalypse / edited by Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, David Addyman.

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Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Christianity, Modernist Culture, and Visions of Apocalypse; 1 Versions of the Wasteland: The Sense of an Ending in Theology and Literature in the Modern Period; 2 The Cup of Suffering: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Discipleship and German Expressionism; 3 Christian Prehistories of Literary Modernism in G.K. Chesterton and Allen Upward; 4 Modernist Anti-Modernists: T.E. Hulme, "Spilt Religion" and "The Religious Attitude."

5 Between the Bang and the Whimper: Eliot and Apocalypse 6 Ezra Pound's Eriugena: Eschatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos; 7 Péguy's Apocalypse; Part 2: Cultural Transitions and Political Apocalypses, 1900-1945; 8 The Reason of Nature: Revolution of Principles Around 1900; 9 Nazi Modernism and the Mobilisation of Christian Artists in the Third Reich; 10 James Strachey Barnes and the Fascist Revolution: Catholicism, Anti-Semitism and the International New Order; 11 "Till Armageddon, No Shalam, No Shalom": Ezra Pound and the Consecration of Politics in the Italian Press During wwii.

12 The Moot, the End of Civilisation and the Re-Birth of Christendom13 Old Dogmas for a New Crisis: Hell and Incarnation in T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden; 14 Apocalypse Deferred: W.H. Auden's Anti-Totalitarian Vision; Part 3: Still Waiting for the End? Post-World War II Readings of Apocalypse; 15 Ezra Pound's Political Faith from First to Second Generation; Or, "It is 1956 Fascism"; 16 "Of What Disaster Is this the Imminence" "The Auroras of Autumn" and the Christian Apocalypse; 17 "History is Done": Thomas Merton's Figures of Apocalypse.

18 Apocalypse in Early ufo and Alien-Based Religions Christian and Theosophical Themes19 The Apocalyptic Social Imaginary; Index.

Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between 'Modernism and Christianity' and 'Apocalypse Studies'. Its nineteen contributions outline a distinct interdisciplinary field of study.

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