Where the world is not : cultural authority and democratic desire in modern American literature /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Savelson, Kim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Pragmatism in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Idea (Philosophy) in literature.
Inventions in literature.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Inventions dans la littérature.
Idée (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Pragmatisme dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature
Democracy in literature
Idea (Philosophy) in literature
Intellectual life
Inventions in literature
Literature and society
Pragmatism in literature
Social change in literature
Literatur
Pragmatismus > Motiv
Demokratie > Motiv
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Democracy stumbling: inventing democratic desire, and the will to believe
  • A plea for pure culture: the pure science ideal
  • The romance for process: means meets ends in Frank Norris's McTeague
  • "Where the world is not": cultural interest and disinterest in Willa Cather's The professor's house
  • Classes and masses: Willa Cather's "Purely cultural studies" and the "New commercialism"
  • "Missionaries of culture": Du Bios' "Higher aims" in Ellison's Invisible man.

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