The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique -- Contents -- 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 DeLillo -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.