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The age of the crisis of man : thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973 / Mark Greif.
LIBRA PS379 .G73 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greif, Mark, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 434 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment
- Currents through the War
- The end of the War and after
- Transmission
- Criticism and the literary crisis of man
- Studies in fiction
- Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions
- Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers
- Flannery O'Connor and faith
- Thomas Pynchon and technology
- Transmutation
- The Sixties as big bang
- Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory
- Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-400) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691146393
- 069114639X
- OCLC:
- 877364319
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