| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism
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End of the world in literature.
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Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Fiction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Apocalypse in literature.
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Apocalypse in literature
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American fiction
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Apocalyptic literature
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Christianity and literature
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End of the world in literature
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Fiction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780268085674 |
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0268085676 |
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