Apocalyptic Projections: A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature

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Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. Theories abounded in an attempt to prepare for calamity and plan for the future. Worldwide concern regarding a twenty-first century apocalypse, related to the 2012 Mayan Apocalyptic prediction, sparked renewed interest. Even though the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope. The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections were presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association.


About the Author


Professor Annette M. Magid, PhD, has taught for thirty years in the English Department at SUNY Erie Community College, Buffalo, New York, USA. She received her Doctorate in English from the University at Buffalo under the guidance of Dr Leslie Fiedler. Her thesis was Transatlantic Confrontation: A Study of Edward Bellamy and William Morris. Her publications include Wilde's Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013), You Are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), and Tunnel of Stone (Mellen Poetry Press, 2002). She has also published articles related to science fiction and environmental issues in literature, and on Edward Bellamy, Fritz Lang, William Morris and Oscar Wilde in a variety of Utopian journals and monographs. She is currently working on her next book, Quintessential Wilde, as well as a folio of her poetry. Professor Magid has won several poetry honors, including National Poetry Awards, and served as Poetry Judge for Mellen Poetry Press in 2004. In addition to being an official Buffalo Ambassador, she also served on the Board of Managers for Pan Am 2001, for which she authored a Legacy Project, Women of Accomplishment of Western New York.