Writing the Apocalypse : historical vision in contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.

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Main Author: Zamora, Lois Parkinson (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York. NY, USA : Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The apocalyptic vision and fictions of historical desire
  • Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
  • Apocalypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon
  • Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortázar
  • The apocalypse of style: John Barth's self-consuming fiction
  • Apocalypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the U.S. South
  • Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuentes's Terra nostra
  • Individual and communal conclusions.