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The Poetics of Transition : Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism /

The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition--the movement from one state or condition to another or,...

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Auteur principal: Levin, Jonathan, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Life, transition, the energizing spirit
  • Divine overflowings: Emerson's pragmatic idealism
  • William James and the metaphorics of transition
  • The aesthetics of pragmatism
  • Santayana, Dewey, and the politics of transition
  • Henry James and the drama of transition
  • Gertrude Stein and the movement of words
  • Wallace Stevens and the pragmatist imagination.