Bosworth, DavidHalstead, Kimberly2017-08-112017-08-112017-06Halstead_washington_0250O_17215.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/40070Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06This essay discusses the history of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction using critical theory, a close examination of relevant novels and short stories, and personal anecdotes. It concludes that post-apocalyptic literature can be see as comforting rather than hellish, since it provides an “after” for an cataclysmic event, no matter how dismal. The world does not end; it continues, just in a different form.application/pdfen-USnoneApocalypseFictionCreative writingEnglishThesis