Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading
Daniel T. O'Hara.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 177 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.
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Purdy, James, 1914-2009 --Criticism and interpretation. Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 --Criticism and interpretation. James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Criticism and interpretation. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Criticism and interpretation. Badiou, Alain--Criticism and interpretation.
Truth. American literature--History and criticism. Criticism--United States.