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Author:
O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-
Title:
Visions of global America and the future of critical reading / Daniel T. O'Hara.
Publisher:
Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xiii, 177 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Criticism--United States.
American literature--History and criticism.
Truth.
Badiou, Alain--Criticism and interpretation.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James,--1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
Purdy, James--Criticism and interpretation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
081429202X (cd-rom)
9780814292020 (cd-rom)
0814211046 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814211045 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)361947828
LCCN:
2009020642
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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