Title: Post-apocalyptic culture
First published: 2008
Description: "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 postmodernist 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." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: English fiction, History and criticism, American fiction, Modernism (Literature), Postmodernism (Literature), Apocalypse in literature, Order in literature, Redemption in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Roman anglais, Histoire et critique, Roman américain, Modernisme (Littérature), Postmodernisme (Littérature), Fin du monde dans la littérature, Ordre dans la littérature
LC classification: PN3503 .H34 2008