The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique

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State University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 188 páginas
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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Introduction
1
1 Modalities of the Visionary Moment
11
2 Validations of the Visionary Moment
31
3 Metaphysics of the Visionary Moment
47
4 The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo
73
5 Saul Bellows Transfigurable Subjects
85
6 Jack Kerouacs Rhetoric of Time
99
7 Ideology of the Visionary Moment
111
Conclusion
123
The Postmodern Sublime
125
Notes
129
Works Cited
147
Index
161
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Paul Maltby is Associate Professor of English at West Chester University. He is the author of Dissident Postmodernists: Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon.

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