From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature
Reading to Make Sense of Our Endings
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 sense-the apocalyptic sublime-and the need for an unending effort to comprehend what it means to live a human life against this inhuman background.
Table of Contents
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
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Product details
| Published | Jun 25 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781666925609 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 1 b/w illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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