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Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading

O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading [electronic resource] / Daniel T. O'Hara. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. - 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.


Electronic books.

PS55 / .O37 2009