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Writing the Apocalypse: historical vision in contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction

Lois Parkinson Zamora 1993 © Cambridge University Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521426916 (paper)
  • 9781316783641 (ebook)
  • 9780521362238 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Literature
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • 1. Introduction: The Apocalyptic Vision and Fictions of Historical Desire (page 1)
  • 2. Apocalypse and Human Time in the Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez (page 25)
  • 3. Apocalypse and Entropy: Physics and the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon (page 52)
  • 4. Art and Revolution in the Fiction of Julio Cortázar (page 76)
  • 5. The Apocalypse of Style: John Barth's Self-Consuming Fiction (page 97)
  • 6. Apocalypse and Renewal: Walker Percy and the U.S. South (page 120)
  • 7. Beyond Apocalypse: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra (page 148)
  • 8. Individual and Communal Conclusions (page 176)
  • Notes (page 193)
  • Index (page 229)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HISP 73.2 (May 1990): 430-431 http://www.jstor.org/stable/342838
SCR 7.4 (Winter 1990): 117-119 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3189116
MLR 87.2 (Apr. 1992): 458-460 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3730707
HisR 59.4 (Autumn 1991): 489-491 http://www.jstor.org/stable/473364
AL 63.1 (Mar. 1991): 170-171 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2926604
RES 42.168 (Nov. 1991): 600-601 http://www.jstor.org/stable/518823
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