Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction - Bog af David Leigh - Hardback

Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction - David Leigh

David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues raised by apocalyptic writers from Walker Percy, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams to Doris Lessing, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo.Leigh tackles head on a fundamental question about Christian-inspired eschatology: Does it sanction, as theologically sacred or philosophically ultimate, the kind of \last battles\..