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Paul Maltby

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191

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2012

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State University of New York Press

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01 février 2012

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9780791488461

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

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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.
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 Delillio

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

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791488461

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

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the visionary moment

a postmodern critique • paul maltby

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The Visionary Moment

A Postmodern Critique

Paul Maltby

State University of New York Press

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Maltby, Paul. The visionary moment : a postmodern critique / Paul Maltby. p. cm.—(SUNY series in postmodern culture) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-7914-5413-4 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-7914-5414-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American ﬁction—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Postmodernism (Literature)—United States. 3. Visions in literature. I. Title. II. Series.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superﬁcial. —Friedrich Nietzsche,The Gay Science

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