Experience and experimental writing : literary pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses / Paul Grimstad.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9780199874088
- 0199874085
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Pragmatism in literature
- Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism
- Experience in literature
- Literary form
- Pragmatisme dans la littérature
- Littérature expérimentale -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique
- Expérience dans la littérature
- Genres littéraires
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- Experience in literature
- Literary form
- Literature, Experimental
- Pragmatism in literature
- United States
- Experimentele fictie
- Literaire genres
- 810.9/384 23
- PS169.P68 G75 2013eb
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American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit, this book argues, of earlier literary experiments in American literature.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Method of Nature; The Unitarian Schism; The Uses of Natural History; The Miracles Controversy; Joyous Science; Amor fati (Beautiful Limits); 2. Nonreasoning Creatures; Antebellum AI; Peirce Machines; Jumping to Conclusions; Species and Genre; The Philosophy of Composition; 3. Unearthing Pierre; Moby-Dick Reviewed; Talking Pictures (Gothic Metaphysics); Chronometricals and Horologicals; The Refused Daguerreotype; Enceladus and Allegory; 4. The Ambassador Effect; The Genteel Tradition; Two Types of Radical Empiricism; The Woollett Scale
Two Types of Cosmopolitanism"Then There We Are!"; 5. Conclusion: Compatibilism, Genre, Allegory, Cosmopolitanism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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