Contingency Blues: The Search For Foundations In American CriticismUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1997 M04 1 - 234 pages From Emerson to Rorty, American criticism has grappled in one way or another with the problem of modernity—specifically, how to determine critical and cultural standards in a world where every position seems the product of an interpretation. Part intellectual history, part cultural critique, this provocative book is an effort to shake American thought out of the grip of the nineteenth century—and out of its contingency blues. |
Contents
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1 Modernity and Nature in Emerson | 20 |
2 Emerson Whitman and the Problem of Culture | 42 |
Pragmatism and the Genteel Tradition | 57 |
Pragmatism Modernism and Aesthetic Criticsm | 81 |
Modernism and the Motives of Rhetoric | 109 |
Conclusion Rhetoric Neopragmatism Border Studies Beyond the Contingency Blues | 142 |
Notes | 183 |
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Contingency Blues: The Search For Foundations In American Criticism Paul Jay No preview available - 1997 |
Contingency Blues: The Search For Foundations In American Criticism Paul Jay No preview available - 1997 |