{"product_id":"writing-the-apocalypse-historical-vision-in-contemporary-u-s-and-latin-american-fiction-paperback-9780521426916","title":"Writing the Apocalypse; Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (Paperback) 9780521426916","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWriting the Apocalypse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistorical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1989 book is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLois Parkinson Zamora (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521426916, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 May 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.353 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'... rarely do we find a work of this calibre with such depth of scholarly grounding and breadth of critical approach … Writing the Apocalypse both informs convincingly and suggests the possibility of further studies in a similar vein … Every Hispanist who is concerned with the dynamics of contemporary literature in Latin America - not to mention the US - should read this excellent work.' Hispanic Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1989 book 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 apocalyptic myth have special meaning for postmodern writers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: the apocolyptic vision and fictions of historic desire\u003cbr\u003e 2. Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u003cbr\u003e 3. Apocolypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon\u003cbr\u003e 4. Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortazar\u003cbr\u003e 5. The apocalypse of style: John Barth's self-consuming fiction\u003cbr\u003e 6. Apocolypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the US South\u003cbr\u003e 7. Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuente's Terra Nostra\u003cbr\u003e 8. Individual and communal conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007277814040,"sku":"9780521426916","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521426916i_85a0b8a1-96a8-4b98-b9ae-5e1ca28d1c8c.jpg?v=1691381663","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/writing-the-apocalypse-historical-vision-in-contemporary-u-s-and-latin-american-fiction-paperback-9780521426916","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}