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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction

by Leigh, David J.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press, (Notre Dame, Ind. :) Physical details: xvi, 256 p.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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