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Post-Apocalyptic Culture : Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel / Teresa Heffernan.

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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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