Visions of global America and the future of critical reading
By: Daniel T. O'Hara.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780814211045; 9780814292020
Subjects: 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; Criticism -- United States; American literature -- History and criticism; Truth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters; title: Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination; title: "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism; title: Global America and the logics of vision; title: America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies; title: Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life; title: "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James; title: Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati; title: Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.