From Tragedy To Apocalypse In American Literature
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From Tragedy To Apocalypse In American Literature
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Author : Lin Atnip
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-06-15
From Tragedy To Apocalypse In American Literature written by Lin Atnip and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature: Reading to Make Sense of Our Endings argues that imaginative literature is essential to comprehending contemporary threats to the survival of the human species and the preservation of our humanity. Atnip outlines a theory of reading which directs us to realities and imperatives that are ignored, denied, or distorted by dominant social conventions and habits of cognition. She then puts this theory into practice through readings of postwar American works by Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy, and Norman Maclean. This book argues that these texts collectively educate us to a new ground of sense—the apocalyptic sublime—and the need for an unending effort to comprehend what it means to live a human life against this inhuman background.
The Bang And The Whimper
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Author : Zbigniew Lewicki
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1984-04-24
The Bang And The Whimper written by Zbigniew Lewicki and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Apocalypse And American Literature And Culture
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Author : John Hay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Apocalypse And American Literature And Culture written by John Hay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with American literature categories.
"In addition to evoking western lands and democratic politics, the very name of America has also encouraged apocalyptic visions. The "American Dream" has not only been about the prospect of material prosperity; it has also been about the end of the world. Final forecasts constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This collection brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history"--
American Literature And The Long Downturn
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Author : Dan Sinykin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-03-04
American Literature And The Long Downturn written by Dan Sinykin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now? What does it mean? This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'. The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse--horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it; claustrophobia within the limited scripts of neoliberalism; suffocation under the weight of debt--together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century. For many of us, for different reasons, it feels like the end is coming soon and this book explores how we came to this, and what it has meant for literature.
American Apocalypses
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Author : Douglas Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 1985
American Apocalypses written by Douglas Robinson and has been published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Literary Criticism categories.
After The End
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Author : James Berger
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
After The End written by James Berger and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with History categories.
In this study of the cultural pursuit of the end and what follows, Berger contends that every apocalyptic depiction leaves something behind, some mixture of paradise and wasteland. Combining literary, psychoanalytic, and historical methods, Berger mines these depictions for their weight and influence on current culture. He applies wide-ranging evidence--from science fiction to Holocaust literature, from Thomas Pynchon to talk shows, from American politics to the fiction of Toni Morrison--to reveal how representations of apocalyptic endings are indelibly marked by catastrophic histories.
Writing The Apocalypse
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Author : Lois Parkinson Zamora
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989-04-28
Writing The Apocalypse written by Lois Parkinson Zamora and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-04-28 with Literary Collections categories.
This 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 apocalytic myth have special meaning for postmodern writers. Zamora focuses her examination on the relationship between the temporal ends and the narrative endings in the works of six major novelists: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortazar, John Barth, Walker Percy, and Carlos Fuentes. Distinguished by its unique, cross-cultural perspective, this book addresses the question of the apocalypse as a matter of intellectual and literary history. Zamora's analysis will enlighten both scholars of North and Latin American literature and readers of contemporary fiction.
The Apocalypse In English Renaissance Thought And Literature
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Author : C. A. Patrides
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1984
The Apocalypse In English Renaissance Thought And Literature written by C. A. Patrides and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
This remarkable collection of original essays by a distinguished group of American and English scholars explores attitudes toward apocalyptic thought and the Book of Revelation as they were reflected, over many centuries, in theological discourse, political activity, and artistic and literary endeavors.
Infrastructures Of Apocalypse
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Author : Jessica Hurley
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Infrastructures Of Apocalypse written by Jessica Hurley and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In Infrastructures of Apocalypse, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives. Exchanging the usual white, male “nuclear canon” for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki, Infrastructures of Apocalypse delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley’s belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement. Infrastructures of Apocalypse offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as Atlas Shrugged, Infinite Jest, and Angels in America. Infrastructures of Apocalypse is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies.
Toward A New Earth Apocalypse In The American Novel
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Author : John R. May
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Toward A New Earth Apocalypse In The American Novel written by John R. May and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.