Composing Cultures : Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture /

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The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, the author contends that in American modernism, the concepts of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aronoff, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Popular culture in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and society.
Culture in literature.
Anthropology in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Anthropologie dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Culture dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis.
Culture populaire dans la litterature.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Literature and society > United States.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The problem of culture
  • Van Wyck Brooks and Edward Sapir : Divided America and the form of genuine culture
  • Possessing culture : Willa Cather's aesthetic of culture in The song of the lark and The professor's house
  • Cultures, canons, and cetology : Modernist culture and the Melville revival
  • Recovering the whole : Culture, region, and poetry in the literary criticism of John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate
  • Conclusion : Composing critical cultures.

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