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, apocalypse was intricately linked to the emergence of a better world, to revelation, and to disclosure.
In this interdisciplinary study, Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end. Probing the cultural and historical reasons for this shift in the understanding of apocalypse, she also considers ... Read more
With fascinating readings of works by William Faulkner, Don DeLillo, Ford Madox Ford, Toni Morrison, E.M. Forster, Salman Rushdie, D.H. Lawrence, and Angela Carter, Post-Apocalyptic Culture is a provocative study of how twentieth-century culture and society responded to a world in which a belief in the end had been exhausted.
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Reviews for Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
Ivan Stacy
Modern Language Review
“Especially worthwhile for students of apocalypticism and also for students of twentieth-century fiction.”
Jesse Wolfe
Kritikon Litterarum