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

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Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heffernan, Teresa, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Redemption in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Order in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction.
Apocalypse in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Redemption dans la litterature.
Ordre dans la litterature.
Fin du monde dans la litterature.
Postmodernisme (Litterature)
Modernisme (Litterature)
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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