Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction (Record no. 142758)
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| fixed length control field | 02541nam a2200397 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813/.54093823 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Leigh, David J. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Notre Dame, Ind. : |
| Name of publisher | University of Notre Dame Press, |
| Year of publication | c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 256 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American fiction |
| Topical Term | Apocalyptic literature |
| Topical Term | End of the world in literature. |
| Topical Term | Christianity and literature |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10425458 |
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