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9780838754337

Prophets Without Vision Subjectivity and the Sacred in Contemporary American Writing

by Ben-Bassat, Hedda
  • ISBN13:

    9780838754337

  • ISBN10:

    0838754333

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Bucknell University Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $96.00

Author Biography

Hedda Ben-Bassat holds a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she is a lecturer in the department of English.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Pilgrims and Strangers: Postmodernism, Scriptural Faiths, and the Vanishing American Self
11(30)
John Updike's Postmodern Apocalypse at Midpoint: Bloom's Gaints and Their Barthian Double
41(24)
Vision Without Prophets: Violence Without Fission of Subjectivity in Flannery O'Connor
65(22)
Footsteps and Echoes: Jewish Figures of Prophetic Diachrony in Grace Paley's Family Tales
87(33)
James Baldwin's Schizophrenic Alienation: Between Marcion and Marx
120(21)
Alice Walker's Poetics: Ethic Narratives and Their Gnostic Double
141(28)
Notes 169(34)
Bibliography 203(10)
Index 213

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