The Age Of The Crisis Of Man: Thought And Fiction In America, 1933Û1973

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.

• | Author: Mark Greif
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 069117329X
• | ISBN-13: 9780691173290