1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524874903321

Autore

O'Hara Daniel T. <1948->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8142-7149-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 177 p. )

Soggetti

Truth

American literature - History and criticism

Criticism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.