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UNINA9910956944003321 |
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Leigh David J |
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction / / David J. Leigh |
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Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008 |
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[1st ed.] |
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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 |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index. |
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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. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910149238003321 |
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家元の研究 / / 西山松之助著 |
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東京, : 吉川弘文館, 1982.6 |
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東京 : , : 吉川弘文館, , 1982 |
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