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Literary Criticism Canadian

Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction

by (author) Marlene Goldman

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2005
Category
Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773529045
    Publish Date
    Aug 2005
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572942
    Publish Date
    Aug 2005
    List Price
    $95.00

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Rewriting Apocalypse in Contemporary Canadian Fiction is the first book to explore the literary, psychological, political, and cultural repercussions of the apocalypse in the fiction of Timothy Finley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King, and Joy Kogawa. While writers from diverse nations have adopted and adapted the biblical narrative, these Canadian authors introduce particular twists to the familiar myth of the end. Goldman demonstrates that they share a marked concern with purgation of the non-elect, the loss experienced by the non-elect, and the traumatic impact of apocalyptic violence. She also analyzes Canadian apocalyptic accounts as crisis literature written in the context of the Cold War - written against the fear of total destruction.

About the author

Marlene Goldman is professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and the author of DisPossession: Haunting in Canadian Fiction.

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