TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maximilian Rütters
PY  - 2021
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783346481382
TI  - Alienation, Apocalypse  and the Postmodern Condition in "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/1118803
N2  - The work that will be focused on the novel “I Am Legend“ by Richard Matheson brings together the idea of the last living human on earth and the myth of vampires. The author shows the theories of the novel that are hidden between the lines. These theories are on the one hand easy to find and very obvious but on the other hand they have to be decoded word by word. To be more specific, I will try to show that the condition of alienation is one of the main topics in Matheson’s writing. Moreover, I will show some postmodern aspect of the novel and why it is so fascinating to read apocalyptic writings. The novel may be written in 1954 and set in the late 1970s but it can be a model for current interpretations of the apocalypse since apocalyptic writings make sense of bad things and are coping with situations in which people feel helpless.
KW  - Apocalypse, science fiction, fiction, I am Legend, Richard Matheson, Alienation, Postmodernism
LA  - English
ER  -