Tate traces a diverse array of tropes as they surface in this century's most indelible doomsday fantasies ... Fluent and perceptive.

Times Literary Supplement

This is a consistently suggestive, scholarly and readable study of the literature of apocalypse both inside and outside science fiction.

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction

A stimulating, lucid and compact study and guide to further research on twenty-first century British, US, and Canadian writing about the end times.

The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society

Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers. Exploring a wide range of texts, from the works of Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Perrotta and Emily St. John Mandel to young adult novels such as Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series, this is the first critical introduction to contemporary apocalyptic fiction. Exploring the cultural and political contexts of these writings and their echoes in popular media, Apocalyptic Fiction also examines how contemporary apocalyptic texts looks back to earlier writings by the likes of Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and J.G. Ballard. Apocalyptic Fiction includes an annotated guide to secondary readings, making this an essential guide for students of contemporary fiction at all levels.
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Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Dreams of the 'Ruined' Future2. 'God Rains Over Everything': Two Floods3. 'Sudden Departure': Rapture Writing4. 'In the Beginning, There Was Chaos': Atwood, Apocalypse, Art5. Empty Roads: Walking After Catastrophe6. Keep Watching: Spectacle, Rebellion and Apocalyptic Rites of PassageConclusion: Survival is InefficientNotesPrimary BibliographyAnnotated Secondary BibliographyIndex
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A critical introduction to apocalyptic and dystopian literature in the 21st-century, from Cormac McCarthy and Margaret Atwood to The Hunger Games.
A critical introduction to 21st-century post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction
The 21st Century Genre Fiction series provides exciting and accessible introductions to new genres in twenty-first-century fiction from Crunch Lit to Steampunk to Scandinavian Crime Fiction. Exploring the history and uses of each genre to date each title in the series will analyse key examples of innovations and developments in the field since the year 2000. The series will consider the function of genre in both reflecting and shaping sociopolitical and economic developments of the twenty-first century.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474233514
Publisert
2017-01-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
367 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter

Biographical note

Andrew Tate is Reader in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. His previous books include Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (2008) and, co-authored with Arthur Bradley, The New Atheist Novel (2010) and, as co-editor, Literature and the Bible: A Reader (2013).