A natural history of pragmatism : the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein /

Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richardson, Joan, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 152.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Pragmatism in literature.
Natural history in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Pragmatisme dans la littérature.
Sciences naturelles dans la littérature.
Esthétique américaine.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Rhétorique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
English language > Rhetoric.
Intellectual life.
United States > Intellectual life.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In Jonathan Edwards's room of the idea
  • Emerson's moving pictures
  • William James's feeling of if
  • Henry James's more than rational distortion
  • Wallace Stevens's radiant and productive atmosphere
  • Gertrude Stein, James's melancthon/a.

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