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The age of the crisis of man : thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973

Title
The age of the crisis of man : thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973 / Mark Greif.
Author
Greif, Mark, 1975-
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]

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xiii, 434 pages; 25 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-400) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 15-1179
ISBN
  • 9780691146393
  • 069114639X
LCCN
2014007905
OCLC
2014007905
Author
Greif, Mark, 1975-
Title
The age of the crisis of man : thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973 / Mark Greif.
Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-400) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-1179
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