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The visionary moment : a postmodern critique / Paul Maltby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maltby, Paul.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture
- SUNY series in postmodern culture
- SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Visions in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Visionary Moment, Paul Maltby draws on postmodern theory to examine the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment, or "epiphany," in twentieth-century American fiction. Engaging critically with the works of Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and William Faulkner, Maltby explains how the literary convention of the visionary moment promotes the myth that there is a superior level of knowledge that can redeem or regenerate the individual. He contends that this common-sense assumption is a paradigm that needs to be confronted and critiqued.
- Contents:
- ""The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Modalities of the Visionary Moment""; ""2. Validations of the Visionary Moment""; ""3. Metaphysics of the Visionary Moment""; ""4. The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo""; ""5. Saul Bellow�s Transfigurable Subjects""; ""6. Jack Kerouac�s Rhetoric of Time""; ""7. Ideology of the Visionary Moment""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix: The Postmodern Sublime""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""
- ""N""""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-160) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791488461
- 0791488462
- OCLC:
- 811404215
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