Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction [[electronic resource] /] / David J. Leigh

• Autore: Leigh David J
• Pubblicazione: Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• 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.: 9910458000403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II