The visionary moment : a postmodern critique

The visionary moment : a postmodern critique / Paul Maltby.

Explores and critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maltby, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Series:SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Visions in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Postmodernism (Literature)
Visions in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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