The demise of God and mankind by Richard Jefferies After London The demise of God, mankind and the animal by Mary Shelley The Last Man kingdom by Richard Matheson I Am Legend The demise of God, mankind, the animal by Cormac McCarthy The Road kingdom and the vegetable world by John Christoper The Death of Grass by J.G. Ballard The Drought The demise of God, mankind, the animal by J.G. Ballard The Drowned World kingdom, the vegetable world and mineral (movie) Waterworld life The demise of God, mankind, the animal 'Finis' by Frank L. Pollack kingdom, the vegetable world and mineral life and the watery world (Graham & Rix, 2013, p. 25) Perhaps the fact that these worlds are characterized by hierarchy and struggle points to how we might consider the kind of positive vision the literature points back to. To moderns, the Great Chain of Being is an image of hierarchy to rival anything in fictions of the apocalypse. Perhaps, then, it invites us to consider what a world that is not hierarchal would look like. We have, however, lost our ideas about what an 'existence' which is free of hierarchy would look like (Graham & Rix, 2013, p. 29) Accordingly, the role and importance of hierarchy and loss of belief is central in determining why characters evolve the way they do and why behaviour in a post-apocalyptic world is nearly always as damaged as the world that surrounds the leftovers of humanity. From this perspective I strive to further research the genres of the post-apocalypse. I believe that in modern times several subgenres, which are not normally connected to the post-apocalyptic genre, have fused with the post-apocalyptic genre, thereby creating whole new subgenres of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse. These hybrid genres, or cross-genres, are part of modern and postmodern literature and narrative. In his essay Introduction to Genre Daniel Chandler relies on Stephen Neale's critical view of genres, saying: Theory It is difficult to make clear-cut distinctions between one genre and another: genres overlap, and there are 'mixed genres' (such as comedy-thrillers). Specific genres tend
The demise of God and mankind After London by Richard Jefferies The demise of God, mankind and the animal kingdom The Last Man by Mary Shelley I Am Legend by Richard Matheson The demise of God, mankind, the animal kingdom and the vegetable world The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Death of Grass by John Christoper The Drought by J.G. Ballard The demise of God, mankind, the animal kingdom, the vegetable world and mineral life The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard Waterworld (movie) The demise of God, mankind, the animal kingdom, the vegetable world and mineral life and the watery world 'Finis' by Frank L. Pollack (Graham & Rix, 2013, p. 25) Perhaps the fact that these worlds are characterized by hierarchy and struggle points to how we might consider the kind of positive vision the literature points back to. To moderns, the Great Chain of Being is an image of hierarchy to rival anything in fictions of the apocalypse. Perhaps, then, it invites us to consider what a world that is not hierarchal would look like. We have, however, lost our ideas about what an 'existence' which is free of hierarchy would look like (Graham & Rix, 2013, p. 29) Accordingly, the role and importance of hierarchy and loss of belief is central in determining why characters evolve the way they do and why behaviour in a post-apocalyptic world is nearly always as damaged as the world that surrounds the leftovers of humanity. From this perspective I strive to further research the genres of the post-apocalypse. I believe that in modern times several subgenres, which are not normally connected to the post-apocalyptic genre, have fused with the post-apocalyptic genre, thereby creating whole new subgenres of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse. These hybrid genres, or cross-genres, are part of modern and postmodern literature and narrative. In his essay Introduction to Genre Theory Daniel Chandler relies on Stephen Neale's critical view of genres, saying: It is difficult to make clear-cut distinctions between one genre and another: genres overlap, and there are 'mixed genres' (such as comedy-thrillers). Specific genres tend
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