Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading Daniel T. O'Hara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Criticism--United States.

Criticism.

Purdy, James, 1914-2009--Criticism and interpretation.

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Badiou, Alain--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 177 p. )

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters

Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination

"The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism

Global America and the logics of vision

America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies

Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life

"Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James

Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati

Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-7149-9

OCLC:

899261247

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access