Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle - Essays on Twentieth Century American Poetry and Fiction

This collection of essays by a leading scholar of American literature and culture demonstrates the impressive scope and depth of Heinz Ickstadt's scholarly interventions and his intense engagement with crucial concepts and questions that have preoccupied the field of American studies over the past decades. Moving from the philosophy of pragmatism to issues of identity formation, from aesthetic experience to pluralist aesthetics, and from imaginaries of American modernism to strategies of commemoration, Ickstadt's recent work explores the complexities of the agenda of literary and cultural studies at large.

Summary

This collection of essays by a leading scholar of American literature and culture demonstrates the impressive scope and depth of Heinz Ickstadt’s scholarly interventions and his intense engagement with crucial concepts and questions that have preoccupied the field of American studies over the past decades. Moving from the philosophy of pragmatism to issues of identity formation, from aesthetic experience to pluralist aesthetics, and from imaginaries of American modernism to strategies of commemoration, Ickstadt’s recent work explores the complexities of the agenda of literary and cultural studies at large.

Product details

• Authors: Heinz Ickstadt
• Assisted by: Susanne Rohr (Editor), Pete Schneck (Editor), Peter Schneck (Editor), Sabine Sielke (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2016
• EAN: 9783825366810
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6681-0
• No. of pages: 402
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 220 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Illustrations: 8 Abbildungen
• Series: American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies; American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Ästhetik, Stieglitz, Alfred, Amerikanische Literatur, Postmoderne, Pragmatismus, Williams, William Carlos, Dewey, John, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, U.S.A., Literarische Moderne, Powers, Richard, Howells, William Dean, Pynchon, Thomas, Howe, Susan, Crane, Hart