The visionary moment : a postmodern critique / / Paul Maltby
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| Autore: |
Maltby Paul
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| Titolo: |
The visionary moment : a postmodern critique / / Paul Maltby
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.509113 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Postmodernism (Literature) - United States | |
| Visions in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-160) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The visionary moment |
| ISBN: | 9780791488461 |
| 0791488462 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910972231703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture