This book argues that imaginative literature is essential to comprehending contemporary threats to human life. Readings of postwar American works by Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy, and Norman Maclean show how their literary forms educate us to the reality of a new ground of sensemaking-the apocalyptic sublime.
This book argues that imaginative literature is essential to comprehending contemporary threats to human life. Readings of postwar American works by Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy, and Norman Maclean show how their literary forms educate us to the reality of a new ground of sensemaking-the apocalyptic sublime.
Lindsay Atnip tutors at St. John's College in Santa Fe.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Literature as Apocalypse Chapter One: From Tragedy to Apocalypse in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire Chapter Two: Beyond Morality, Beyond Nihilism: McCarthy's Blood Meridian and the Ethics of Apocalypse Chapter Three: Mourning Our Myths: The Apocalyptic Elegies of Robert Lowell and Wallace Stevens Conclusion: Reading At and Against the End of the World Bibliography About the Author
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Literature as Apocalypse Chapter One: From Tragedy to Apocalypse in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire Chapter Two: Beyond Morality, Beyond Nihilism: McCarthy's Blood Meridian and the Ethics of Apocalypse Chapter Three: Mourning Our Myths: The Apocalyptic Elegies of Robert Lowell and Wallace Stevens Conclusion: Reading At and Against the End of the World Bibliography About the Author
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