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Author Manjikian, Mary

Title Apocalypse and post-politics : the romance of the end / Mary Manjikian
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Contents INTRODUCTION; PART 1. APOCALYPSE AS PREDICTION; CHAPTER 1. APOCALYPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY; CHAPTER 2. CATASTROPHE NOVELS AND PREDICTION; CHAPTER 3. UTOPIAN NOVELS AND FORECASTING; CHAPTER 4. THE ROMANCE OF THE WORLD'S END; PART 2. APOCALYPSE AS CRITIQUE; CHAPTER 5. APOCALYPSE AND EPISTEMOLOGY; CHAPTER 6. EXCEPTIONALITY AND APOCALYPSE; CHAPTER 7. GOING NATIVE; CHAPTER 8. THE TRAVELER; PART 3. APOCALYPSE AS ETHICS; CHAPTER 9. ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary In Mary Manjikian's Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End, apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and historic Britain are affirmed as a creative luxury of development. Manjikian examines a number of such novels using the lens of an international relations theorist, identifying faults in the logic of the American exceptionalists and showing that the apocalyptic narrative provides both a counterpoint and a corrective to the narrative of exceptionalism. </span
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index
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Subject American fiction -- History and criticism
Apocalypse in literature.
End of the world in literature.
Exceptionalism -- United States
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Apocalypse in literature
End of the world in literature
Exceptionalism
Amerikanska romaner.
Apokalyps i litteraturen.
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678690
ISBN 9780739166246
0739166247
9780739166246
1280659270
9781280659270
9786613636201
6613636207