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Experience and Experimental Writing : Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses
ISBN: 9780199874071 | 0199874077
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/26/2013
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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and (contemporaneously with the flowering of pragmatism) Henry James, each in their different ways prefigure at the level of literary form what emerge as the guiding ideas of classical pragmatism. Specifically, this link occurs in the way ... MORE
Paul Grimstad is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.
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