The Visionary Moment : A Postmodern Critique
by
Paul Maltby
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
ISBN-10
0791454134
ISBN-13
9780791454138
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 11th, 2002
Print length
188 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismCultural studies
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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 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.
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