03142nam 2200613 a 450 991080909810332120240418020406.00-268-08567-6(CKB)2560000000052786(SSID)ssj0000482749(PQKBManifestationID)11296401(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482749(PQKBWorkID)10526531(PQKB)10265167(OCoLC)694145919(MdBmJHUP)muse14834(Au-PeEL)EBL3441078(CaPaEBR)ebr10425458(MiAaPQ)EBC3441078(EXLCZ)99256000000005278620080617d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrApocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction /David J. Leigh1st ed.Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Pressc2008xvi, 256 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-268-03380-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.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.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.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismApocalyptic literatureHistory and criticismEnd of the world in literatureChristianity and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryFictionReligious aspectsChristianityAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Apocalyptic literatureHistory and criticism.End of the world in literature.Christianity and literatureHistoryFictionReligious aspectsChristianity.813/.54093823Leigh David J1618162MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809098103321Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction4055987UNINA