Leigh, David J. <br/><br/>
Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction  [electronic resource] / 
David J. Leigh. 
 - Notre Dame, Ind. :  University of Notre Dame Press,  c2008. 
 - xvi, 256 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA8B6925  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.<br/>End of the world in literature.<br/>Christianity and literature--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Fiction--Religious aspects--Christianity.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.A65  / L35 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54093823