The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel Critical Temporalities and the End Times

Name: The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel Critical Temporalities and the End Times
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the contemporary shift to apocalyptic narratives in which the utopian end of time is removed? The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel offers an innovative critical model for our cultural obsession with 'the end' by focussing on the significance of time in the 21st-century post-apocalyptic novel and challenging traditional apocalyptic logic. Once confined to the genre of science fiction, the increasing popularity of end-of-the-world narratives has caused apocalyptic writing to feature in the work of some of contemporary literature's most well-known fiction writers. Considering novels by Will Self, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeanette Winterson and others, Diletta De Cristofaro frames the contemporary apocalyptic imagination as a critique of modernity's apocalyptic conception of time and history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book historicises apocalyptic beliefs by exploring how relentlessly they have shaped the modern world.

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Number of Pages:: 206
Release Date:: 2019-12-26
Publication Date:: 2019-12-26
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350085774
ISBN13:: 9781350085770
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 479 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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