Prophets without vision : subjectivity and the sacred in contemporary American writing / Hedda Ben-Bassat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Bassat, Hedda, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Religious fiction, American--History and criticism.

Religious fiction, American.

Religion and literature--History--20th century.

Religion and literature.

History.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

United States.

Subjectivity in literature.

Holy, The, in literature.

Prophecies in literature.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [2000]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Pilgrims and Strangers: Postmodernism, Scriptural Faiths, and the Vanishing American Self 11

2. John Updike's Postmodern Apocalypse at Midpoint: Bloom's Giants and Their Barthian Double 41

3. Vision Without Prophets: Violence Without Fission of Subjectivity in Flannery O'Connor 65

4. Footsteps and Echoes: Jewish Figures of Prophetic Diachrony in Grace Paley's Family Tales 87

5. James Baldwin's Schizophrenic Alienation: Between Marcion and Marx 120

6. Alice Walker's Poetics: Ethic Narratives and Their Gnostic Double 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.

ISBN:

0838754333

OCLC:

42733609