Lois Parkinson Zamora
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 1993
9780521426916
Writing the Apocalypse
Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction
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Paperback, 244 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
1993
ISBN13: 9780521426916
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
This 1989 book is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora explores the history of the myth of apocalypse, from the Bible to medieval and later interpretations, and relates this to the development of American apocalyptic attitudes. She demonstrates that the symbolic tensions inherent in the apocalyptic myth have special meaning for postmodern writers.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521426916
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:244
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the apocolyptic vision and fictions of historic desire; 2. Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; 3. Apocolypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon; 4. Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortazar; 5. The apocalypse of style: John Barth's self-consuming fiction; 6. Apocolypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the US South; 7. Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuente's Terra Nostra; 8. Individual and communal conclusions; Notes; Index.