Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading [electronic resource] / Daniel T. O'Hara.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 177 p. )Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780814271490
- 0814271499
- Truth
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Criticism -- United States
- 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
- PS55 .O37 2009
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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