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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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction: Post-Apocalyptic Culture --   |t PART ONE: THE END --   |t 1. Characters in Search of the End --   |t 2. Viral Endings --   |t PART TWO: HISTORY --   |t 3. Modernism and the End of the End of History --   |t 4. Futures That Have Not Been: Postmodernism and the Limits of History --   |t PART THREE: NATION --   |t 5. Apocalyptic Communities: The European Nation, Islam, and Hinduism --   |t 6. Unveiling Nations --   |t PART FOUR: MAN --   |t 7. Anti-Apocalypse and the New Man --   |t 8. The 'Fag End' Again and the New Woman --   |t Conclusion: The Return of End Times --   |t Notes --   |t Works Cited --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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 the political implications of living in a world that does not rely on revelation as an organizing principle.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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