The Age of the Crisis of Man : Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 /

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In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Greif, Mark, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Amerikanska romaner > historia.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Philosophische Anthropologie
Roman
American fiction.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment
  • Currents through the War
  • The end of the War and after
  • Transmission
  • Criticism and the literary crisis of man
  • Studies in fiction
  • Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions
  • Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers
  • Flannery O'Connor and faith
  • Thomas Pynchon and technology
  • Transmutation
  • The Sixties as big bang
  • Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory
  • Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.

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