The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Critical Temporalities and the End Times
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 t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-08579-4
- EAN: 9781350085794
- Produktnummer: 33242465
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 381 KB
Über den Autor
Diletta De Cristofaro is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University, UK. She researches contemporary British and North American fiction with a special interest in the intersection of narrative and temporality. She is co-founder and vice-chair of the Contemporary Studies Network. In 2017, she was the recipient of a Harry Ransom Center Fellowship.
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