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American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice - Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Paperback)
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American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice - Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Paperback)
Series: Mind and American Literature
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Innovative study that sees much of twentieth-century American
poetry as enacting, in language, pragmatic philosophy. Wittgenstein
wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of
poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject
and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and
ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since
the Enlightenment. Kristen Case's book argues that American poets
from Emerson to Susan Howe have responded to the central problems
of Western philosophy by performing, in language, the continually
shifting relation between mind and world. Pragmatism, recognizing
the futility of philosophy's attempt to fix the mind/world
relation, announces the insights that these poets enact. Pursuing
the flightsof pragmatist thinking into poetry and poetics, Case
traces an epistemology that emerges from American writing,
including that of Emerson, Marianne Moore, William James, and
Charles Olson. Here mind and world are understood as inseparable,
and the human being is regarded as, in Thoreau's terms, "part and
parcel of Nature." Case presents a new picture of twentieth-century
American poetry that disrupts our sense of the schools and lineages
of modern and postmodern poetics, arguing that literary history is
most accurately figured as a living field rather than a line. This
book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of
pragmatism, transcendentalism, and twentieth-century American
poetry. Kristen Case is Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Maine at Farmington.
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