American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature

Absalom absence Adam Ahab Ahab's American apocalypses American literature American writers annihilation apoca apocalyptic imagination apocalyptic vision Balizet Barth becomes biblical Blake body Book of Jonah Book of Revelation chapter Christ Christian course criticism deferral Derrida desire destroy destruction diacrisis divine double earth Edgar Allan Poe eschatological eternal ethical father Faulkner figure finally future Giles Goat-Boy God's Hank Hank's Hawthorne heaven house of fiction human imagistic insistence interpretation intervocal intervoice Ishmael Jesus John Kenneth Burke Ligeia lypse lyptic Maelström meaning mediation mediatory metafiction metonymy mind Miss Lonelyhearts Miss Rosa Moby-Dick narrative narrator nature negation novel paradise Poe's precisely prediction present problem Prospero Pyncheon Quentin R. W. B. Lewis reader reading reality repr revealed Romantic Rosa's seeks sense spirit subsequent quotations suggests Sutpen synecdochic temporal thematic things thought tion transcendental transformation trope truth Twain's ultimate University Press veil visionary whale Wigglesworth