Paul Maltby is Associate Professor of English at West Chester University. He is the author of Dissident Postmodernists: Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Modalities of the Visionary Moment

2. Validations of the Visionary Moment

3. Metaphysics of the Visionary Moment

4. The Romantic Metaphysics of Don Delillio

5. Saul Bellow's Transfigurable Subjects

6. Jack Kerouac's Rhetoric of Time

7. Ideology of the Visionary Moment

Conclusion

Appendix: The Postmodern Sublime

Notes

Works Cited

Index