TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leigh,David J.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction
AV  - PS374.A65 L35 2008
U1  - 813/.54093823 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Notre Dame, Ind.
PB  - University of Notre Dame Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Apocalyptic literature
KW  - End of the world in literature
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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