1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956944003321

Autore

Leigh David J

Titolo

Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction / / David J. Leigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008

ISBN

9780268085674

0268085676

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 256 p

Disciplina

813/.54093823

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism

End of the world in literature

Christianity and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Fiction - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: ultimate issues in apocalyptic literature -- A literary reading of revelation in a postmillennial age -- The ultimate journey: the quest for transcendence and wholeness in the apocalyptic worlds of Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo -- The ultimate conflict: the cosmic battle in the violent end-times of C.S. Lewis and Russell Hoban -- The ultimate union: person, community, and the divine in Doris Lessing's apocalyptic fiction -- The ultimate cosmos: a new heaven and a new earth in three science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, George Zebrowski, and Walter M. Miller, Jr -- The ultimate self: death and dying in John Updike and Charles Williams -- The ultimate challenge: apocalyptic liberation and transformation in African-American writing: Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison -- The ultimate way: apocalypse and pluralism in the postcolonial fiction of Salman Rushdie and Shusaku Endo.

Sommario/riassunto

Leigh succeeds in providing his readers with a general survey of twentieth-century novels that retrieve the thematic and formal elements of premodern apocalyptic literature.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910149238003321

Titolo

家元の研究 / /  西山松之助著

Pubbl/distr/stampa

東京, : 吉川弘文館, 1982.6

東京 : , : 吉川弘文館, , 1982

ISBN

4-642-20332-X

Descrizione fisica

オンライン資料1件

Collana

西山松之助著作集 / 西山松之助著 ; 第1巻

Classificazione

702.15

Altri autori (Persone)

西山松之助

Soggetti

家元

Lingua di pubblicazione

Giapponese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

校倉書房(1959年刊)の新版

著者近影あり