Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American FictionCambridge University Press, 28 apr 1989 - 233 pagina's 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. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction The Apocalyptic Vision and Fictions of Historical Desire | 1 |
Apocalypse and Human Time in the Fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 25 |
Apocalypse and Entropy Physics and the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon | 52 |
Art and Revolution in the Fiction of Julio Cortazar | 76 |
The Apocalypse of Style John Barths SelfConsuming Fiction | 97 |
Apocalypse and Renewal Walker Percy and the US South | 120 |
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Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin ... Lois Parkinson Zamora Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1993 |
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Absalom alyptic apoc apocalyptic narration apocalyptic vision artistic Aureliano Barth beginning biblical apocalyptist Borges Borges's Buendías Carlos Fuentes chapter characters Christian communal conception contemporary Latin American contemporary U.S. context create critical cultural death describes discussion entropy eschatological essay esthetic Faulkner Felipe final Floating Opera Fuentes's future Gabriel García Márquez God's Gravity's Rainbow human ideal imagination individual Joachim Joachim of Fiore John John Barth José Arcadio Julio Cortázar Lancelot language Last Gentleman Latin American fiction Latin American writers literary Love Glenda Macondo means metaphor Mexico modern myth of apocalypse mythic novel novelistic Octavio Paz paradise past Percy's political present Pynchon's Quentin reality reference relation Revelation revolutionary secular sense sexual social Solitude Spanish Stencil story suggests Sutpen's symbolic temporal Terra Terra Nostra Thomas Pynchon tion tradition trans transcendent U.S. South understanding University Press utopia Vico Vico's Voegelin Walker Percy Will's words York