The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel: Critical Temporalities and the End Times

by Diletta De Cristofaro

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350235938
• ISBN13: 9781350235939
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"