TY - BOOK AU - O'Hara,Daniel T. ED - Project Muse. TI - Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading SN - 9780814271490 AV - PS55 .O37 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Purdy, James, KW - Baldwin, James, KW - James, Henry, KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - Badiou, Alain KW - Truth KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism KW - United States KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27786/ ER -