Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction / / David J. Leigh
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| Autore: |
Leigh David J
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| Titolo: |
Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction / / David J. Leigh
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| 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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