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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit, this book argues, of earlier literary experiments in American literature. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Method of Nature; The Unitarian Schism; The Uses of Natural History; The Miracles Controversy; Joyous Science; Amor fati (Beautiful Limits); 2. Nonreasoning Creatures; Antebellum AI; Peirce Machines; Jumping to Conclusions; Species and Genre; The Philosophy of Composition; 3. Unearthing Pierre; Moby-Dick Reviewed; Talking Pictures (Gothic Metaphysics); Chronometricals and Horologicals; The Refused Daguerreotype; Enceladus and Allegory; 4. The Ambassador Effect; The Genteel Tradition; Two Types of Radical Empiricism; The Woollett Scale |
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Two Types of Cosmopolitanism"Then There We Are!"; 5. Conclusion: Compatibilism, Genre, Allegory, Cosmopolitanism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Pragmatism in literature.
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Pragmatism in literature. |
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Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Experience in literature.
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Experience in literature. |
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Literary form.
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Literary form. |
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Literature, Experimental. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grimstad, Paul, 1973- Experience and experimental writing. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199874071 (DLC) 2012047344 (OCoLC)823380555 |
| ISBN |
9780199874088 (electronic book) |
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0199874085 (electronic book) |
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9780199874071 |
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0199874077 |
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