The Poetics of Transition : Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- New Americanists Series .
- New Americanists Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Life, Transition, and the Energizing Spirit -- Chapter One: Divine Overflowings: Emerson's Pragmatic Idealism -- Chapter Two: William James and the Metaphorics of Transition -- Chapter Three: The Aesthetics of Pragmatism -- Chapter Four: Santayana, Dewey, and the Politics of Transition -- Chapter Five: Henry James and the Drama of Transition -- Chapter Six: Gertrude Stein and the Movement of Words -- Chapter Seven: Wallace Stevens and the Pragmatist Imagination -- Notes -- Index.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,-1803-1882-Philosophy. Emerson, Ralph Waldo,-1803-1882-Influence. American literature-20th century-History and criticism. Modernism (Literature)-United States. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). Pragmatism in literature.