Experience and Experimental Writing Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses |
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| Author:
| Grimstad, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-987407-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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The book traces connections between the literary experiments of Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry James, and the emergence of classical American pragmatism. The argument is that the earlier writers' experiments at the level of compositional method and literary form model and prefigure the idea, central to pragmatism, that experience is not a matter of correspondence but of experiment.
The book traces connections between the literary experiments of Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry James, and the emergence of classical American pragmatism. The argument is that the earlier writers' experiments at the level of compositional method and literary form model and prefigure the idea, central to pragmatism, that experience is not a matter of correspondence but of experiment.