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

Published by University of Toronto Press 2008

Post-Apocalyptic Culture

Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

Heffernan Teresa :

Teresa Heffernan is a professor in the Department of English at St. Mary’s University.

Jesse Wolfe:
“Especially worthwhile for students of apocalypticism and also for students of twentieth-century fiction.”

Ivan Stacy:
“A useful starting point from which to examine the aesthetics of fiction being produced in the twenty-first century.”

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Post-Apocalyptic Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: THE END
1. Characters in Search of the End Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Viral Endings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PART TWO: HISTORY
3. Modernism and the End of the End of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Futures That Have Not Been: Postmodernism and the Limits of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
PART THREE: NATION
5. Apocalyptic Communities: The European Nation, Islam, and Hinduism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
6. Unveiling Nations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
PART FOUR: MAN
7. Anti-Apocalypse and the New Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. The ‘Fag End’ Again and the New Woman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Conclusion: The Return of End Times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189

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