| Description |
1 online resource (x, 221 pages). |
| Series |
The Wisconsin project on American writers
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Wisconsin project on American writers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-216) and index. |
| Contents |
Modernity and nature in Emerson -- Emerson, Whitman, and the problem of culture -- George Santayana and Van Wyck Brooks: Pragmatism and the genteel tradition -- John Dewey: Pragmatism, modernism, and aesthetic criticism -- Kenneth Burke: Modernism and the motives of rhetoric -- Conclusion: Rhetoric, neopragmatism, border studies -- Beyond the contingency blues. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Criticism -- United States -- History.
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Pragmatism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jay, Paul, 1946- Contingency blues. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1997 0299154106 (DLC) 96042533 (OCoLC)35364781 |
| ISBN |
0585136246 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585136240 (electronic bk.) |
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9780299154134 (electronic bk.) |
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0299154130 (electronic bk.) |
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9780299154103 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0299154106 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780299154141 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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0299154149 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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