Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature /

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Until now, Bergson's widely acknowledged impact on American literature has never been comprehensively mapped. Author Paul Douglass explains and evaluates Bergson's meaning for American writers, beginning with Eliot and moving through Ransom, Penn Warren, and Tate to Faulkner, Wallace Steve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglass, Paul, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965.
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation.
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941 > Influence.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Criticism.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Critique > États-Unis.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Criticism > United States.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Until now, Bergson's widely acknowledged impact on American literature has never been comprehensively mapped. Author Paul Douglass explains and evaluates Bergson's meaning for American writers, beginning with Eliot and moving through Ransom, Penn Warren, and Tate to Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, and others. It will be a standard point of reference. Bergson was the continental philosopher of the early 1900s, a celebrity, as Sartre would later be. Profoundly influential throughout Europe, and widely discussed in England and America in the Teens, Twenties, and.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780813161631

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