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Teresa Heffernan - Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel - 9781442627000 - V9781442627000
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Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel

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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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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442627000
SKU
V9781442627000
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About Teresa Heffernan
Teresa Heffernan is a professor in the Department of English at St. Mary’s University.

Reviews for Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
“A useful starting point from which to examine the aesthetics of fiction being produced in the twenty-first century.” ;
Ivan Stacy
Modern Language Review
“Especially worthwhile for students of apocalypticism and also for students of twentieth-century fiction.”
Jesse Wolfe
Kritikon Litterarum

Goodreads reviews for Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel


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