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From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature
Reading to Make Sense of Our Endings
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From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature: Reading to Make Sense of Our Endings argues that imaginative literature is essential to comprehending contemporary threats to the survival of the human species and the preservation of our humanity. Atnip outlines a theory of reading which directs us to realities and imperatives that are ignored, denied, or distorted by dominant social conventions and habits of cognition. She then puts this theory into practice through readings of postwar American works by Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy, and Norman Maclean. This book argues that these texts collectively educate us to a new ground of senseâthe apocalyptic sublimeâand the need for an unending effort to comprehend what it means to live a human life against this inhuman background.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Literature as Apocalypse
- Chapter One: From Tragedy to Apocalypse in Norman Macleanâs Young Men and Fire
- Chapter Two: Beyond Morality, Beyond Nihilism: McCarthyâs 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