LEADER 03230nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910956944003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780268085674 010 $a0268085676 035 $a(CKB)2560000000052786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000482749 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296401 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482749 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526531 035 $a(PQKB)10265167 035 $a(OCoLC)694145919 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10425458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441078 035 $a(Perlego)4329249 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000052786 100 $a20080617d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction /$fDavid J. Leigh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNotre Dame, Ind. $cUniversity of Notre Dame Press$dc2008 215 $axvi, 256 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780268033804 311 08$a0268033803 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aLeigh succeeds in providing his readers with a general survey of twentieth-century novels that retrieve the thematic and formal elements of premodern apocalyptic literature. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aApocalyptic literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnd of the world in literature 606 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFiction$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aApocalyptic literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnd of the world in literature. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aFiction$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a813/.54093823 700 $aLeigh$b David J$01809442 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956944003321 996 $aApocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction$94360232 997 $aUNINA