| Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Postmodernism (Literature); Apocalypse in literature; Order in literature; Redemption in literature; Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end. Heffernan Teresa : Teresa Heffernan is a professor in the Department of English at St. Mary's University. |