Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-400) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The age of the crisis of man

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mark Greif

Sub title

thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973

Table Of 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

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