American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice - Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe

Innovative study that sees much of twentieth-century American poetry as enacting, in language, pragmatic philosophy.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
"By Their Fruits": Words and Action in American Writing
Emerson, Moore, America
Robert Frost, Charles Sanders Peirce, and the Necessity of Form
"As Much a Part of Things as Trees and Stones": John Dewey, William Carlos Williams, and the Difference in Not Knowing
Henry Thoreau, Charles Olson, and the Poetics of Place
Howe/James
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Kristen Case

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Case
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2017
• EAN: 9781571139863
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-986-3
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Mind and American Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Amerika, Lyrik, Poesie, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, POETRY / American / General