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Post-Apocalyptic Culture : Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel / Teresa Heffernan.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heffernan, Teresa, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Apocalypse in literature.
- Order in literature.
- Redemption in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.
- Contents:
- Characters in search of the end
- Viral endings
- Modernism and the end of the end of history
- Futures that have not been : postmodernism and the limits of history
- Apocalyptic communities : the European nation, Islam, and Hinduism
- Unveiling nations
- Anti-apocalypse and the new man
- The "fag end" again and the new woman
- The return of end times.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9275-8
- 1-4426-8883-1
- OCLC:
- 635459399
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