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

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

In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocaly...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Heffernan, Teresa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
American fiction
English fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Post-Apocalyptic Culture
  • PART ONE: THE END
  • 1. Characters in Search of the End
  • 2. Viral Endings
  • PART TWO: HISTORY
  • 3. Modernism and the End of the End of History
  • 4. Futures That Have Not Been: Postmodernism and the Limits of History
  • PART THREE: NATION
  • 5. Apocalyptic Communities: The European Nation, Islam, and Hinduism
  • 6. Unveiling Nations
  • PART FOUR: MAN
  • 7. Anti-Apocalypse and the New Man
  • 8. The 'Fag End' Again and the New Woman
  • Conclusion: The Return of End Times
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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