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xvi, 256 p. 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. David J. Leigh. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- 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 PS374.A65 L35 2008eb 813/.54093823 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10425458 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10425458 CaPaEBR 080617 ebr10425458