Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture

Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture by Lee Quinby | 1999

Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century casts everything from El Niño to sheep cloning in apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fueling panic and fostering unfounded hope for a perfect world.

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Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism

Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism by Lee Quinby | Apr 1, 1994

Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. In doing so, she develops strategies for resisting its tyrannies.

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Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America

Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America by Lee Quinby | Jan 1, 1991

An examination of issues of American individuality, ethics, and freedom through Michel Foucault's theory of power.

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Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film

Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film (Apocalypse and Popular Culture) Co-edited by John Walliss and Lee Quinby | Oct 3, 2010

In the last decades, writers and directors have increasingly found the Book of Revelation a fitting cinematic muse for an age beset by possibilities of world destruction.

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Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (Millennialism and Society)
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (Millennialism and Society)

Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (Millennialism and Society) Co-edited by Brenda E. Brasher and Lee Quinby | Aug 10, 2014

The female body has been an object of oppression and control throughout history. 'Gender and Apocalyptic Desire' exposes the often-hidden links between the struggles of women and the conflict of good versus evil.

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Genealogy and Literature
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Genealogy and Literature

Genealogy And Literature | Lee Quinby, Editor | Sep 19, 1995

Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society.

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Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton

Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance

Feminism & Foucalt co-edited by Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby (Northeastern University Press, 1988)

An examination of issues of American individuality, ethics, and freedom through Michel Foucault's theory of power...critical readings of a wide range of American texts

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