Ebook: The visionary moment : a postmodern critique
Author: Maltby Paul
- Tags: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States. Visions in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction. Postmodernism (Literature) United States.
- Series: SUNY series in postmodern culture
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- City: Albany, United States
- Language: English
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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 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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