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Toward a new earth; apocalypse in the American novel

Title: Toward a new earth; apocalypse in the American novel [by] John R. May.
Author: May, John R.
Publication: Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press [1972]

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Description

ix, 254 pages; 22 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 244-249.

Contents

Apocalypse and the American tradition -- The possibility of renewal: the ideal and the real in Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain -- Words and deeds: apocalyptic judgment in Faulkner, West, and O'Connor -- Ellison, Baldwin, and Wright:vestiges of Christian apocalypse -- Loss of world in Barth, Pynchon, and Vonnegut: the varieties of humorous apocalypse -- Types of apocalypse in the American novel.

ISBN

0268005133
9780268005139
0268004749
9780268004743

LCCN

72003510

OCLC

ocm00524039
524039
SCSB-119382

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library