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The visionary moment : a postmodern critique

By Paul , Maltby

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0-7914-5413-4, 9780791454138, 9780791454145, 0-7914-5414-2, 9780791488461, 0791488462
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1126273 bytes)
Series
SUNY series in postmodern culture
Pages
176\191
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and cr

Description

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

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