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