TY - BOOK AU - Greif,Mark TI - The age of the crisis of man: thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973 SN - 978-0-691-14639-3 U1 - 823 23A PY - 2015/// CY - Princeton, Oxford PB - Princeton University Press KW - American fiction--20th century--History and criticism N1 - Notes bibliogr; 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 ER -