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100 1 _aLeigh, David J.
245 1 0 _aApocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction
_h[electronic resource] /
_cDavid J. Leigh.
260 _aNotre Dame, Ind. :
_bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axvi, 256 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aApocalyptic literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnd of the world in literature.
650 0 _aChristianity and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aFiction
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441078
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