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Autore: | Leigh David J |
Titolo: | Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction / / David J. Leigh |
Pubblicazione: | Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xvi, 256 p |
Disciplina: | 813/.54093823 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction |
ISBN: | 0-268-08567-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809098103321 |
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