QuakeStory 168
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A story submitted by Irene to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Irene to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 March 2011 entitled, "Day 14 - in the red zone".
A story submitted by Georgia Surie to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Jen to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Francis Ganderton to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Lynette Evans to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Tracy to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Alison Downes to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Sophia to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Haydon Wilson to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Sarah Gallagher to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Linda Grainger to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Nathanael Boehm to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Leanne to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 26 March 2011 entitled, "Processing Stuff...".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 10 December 2011 entitled, "'When a City Falls'".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 31 December 2011 entitled, "2011 in review".
A story submitted by Georgia M to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Sharon Stevens to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Kate to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Fiona to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 28 March 2011 entitled, "This week...".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 27 February 2011 entitled, "Scenes Around the Barbadoes Street Bridge".
A story submitted by Kathleen Himiona to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Liz to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Mike Williams to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Frank Hardy to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Bettina to the QuakeStories website.
This thesis investigates the relationship between the apocalyptic narrative and the postmodern novel. It explores and builds on Patricia Waugh‟s hypothesis in Practising Postmodernism: Reading Modernism (1992) which suggests that that the postmodern is characterised by an apocalyptic sense of crisis, and argues that there is in fact a strong relationship between the apocalyptic and the postmodern. It does so through an exploration of apocalyptic narratives and themes in five postmodern novels. It also draws on additional supporting material which includes literary and cultural theory and criticism, as well as historical theory. In using the novel as a medium through which to explore apocalyptic narratives, this thesis both assumes and affirms the novel‟s importance as a cultural artefact which reflects the concerns of the age in which it is written. I suggest that each of the novels discussed in this thesis demonstrates the close relationship between the apocalyptic and the postmodern through society‟s concern over the direction of history, the validity of meta-narratives, and other cultural phenomenon, such as war, the development of nuclear weaponry, and terrorism. Although the scope of this thesis is largely confined to the historical-cultural epoch known as postmodernity, it also draws on literature and cultural criticism from earlier periods so as to provide a more comprehensive framework for investigating apocalyptic ideas and their importance inside the postmodern novel. A number of modernist writers are therefore referred to or quoted throughout this thesis, as are other important thinkers from preceding periods whose ideas are especially pertinent. The present thesis was researched and written between March 2010 and August 2011 and is dedicated to all of those people who lost their lives in the apocalyptic events of the February 22nd Christchurch earthquake.
A story submitted by Jennifer to the QuakeStories website.