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In his 1999 book, Still the New World, American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction, Philip Fisher analyzes the themes of creative destruction at play in literary works of the twentieth century, including the works of such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Henry James, among others ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger; Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism; Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that conceptualises certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self
Jerusalem was razed by the Romans during the Jewish Revolt in 70 CE. This relief from the Arch of Titus shows the spoils from the destroyed Temple paraded in Rome. Marshall Berman, an American Marxist writer and political theorist, acknowledges the relatively recent inception of the term urbicide, and the subsequent study of urban destruction as a distinct phenomenon.
American author Edgar Allan Poe. He is named the father of American gothic literature and an inspiration for future horror writers. Shelley's Frankenstein, for example, takes it on differently. Employing gothic elements in her story, she utilizes violence for a purpose other than representing the dark, unrestricted cunning of humanity or the ...
War Porn (2016), Dust jacket cover. War Porn is an anti-war novel by Roy Scranton completed in 2011 and published in 2016 by Soho Press. [1] [2]The novel presents structurally integrated stories told through the third- and first-person perspectives, which present contrasting and complex perspectives on the Iraq war.
Confessional writing is a literary style and genre that developed in American writing schools following the Second World War. [1] [2] A prominent mode of confessional writing is confessional poetry, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.
The American form of this sensibility centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, with Charles Brockden Brown being a predecessor. [18] As opposed to the perfectionist beliefs of Transcendentalism , these darker contemporaries emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction , as well ...