Flowers of Time : On Postapocalyptic Fiction /

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"For all of its current popularity, contemporary apocalyptic fiction-novels set during or after events that devastate the world as we know it-is part of a long tradition that includes the Biblical story of Noah, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Works and Days of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, as...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Payne, Mark, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dystopias > History.
End of the world in literature.
Apocalyptic fiction > History and criticism.
Apocalypse in literature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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