عنوان
پدید آورنده
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رده
PS25 .J395 1997
PS25
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J395
1997
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0299154106 (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
0299154149 (paper : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780299154103 (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780299154141 (paper : alk. paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b411430
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Contingency blues :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the search for foundations in American criticism /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Jay.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Madison, Wis. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Wisconsin Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 221 p. ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The Wisconsin project on American writers
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-216) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
A forceful rejection of both kinds of revisionism, Contingency Blues locates an alternative in the work of the "border studies" critics, those who give our interest in contingency a new, more concrete form by taking an historical, cultural, and anthropological approach to the invention of literature, subjectivity community and culture in a pan-American context.
Text of Note
Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first, which includes Richard Poirier and Giles Gunn, has attempted to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James, and Dewey. The second, represented most forcefully by Richard Rorty, tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge. In chapters on Emerson, Whitman, Santayana, Van Wyck Brooks, Dewey, and Kenneth Burke, Jay examines the historical roots of these two positions, which he argues are marked by recurrent attempts to reconcile transcendentalism and pragmatism.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
Criticism-- United States-- History.
Modernism (Literature)-- United States.
Pragmatism.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PS25
Book number
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J395
1997
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Jay, Paul,1946-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20140218103152.0
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