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Pragmatic Modernism (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,987
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Pragmatic Modernism (Hardcover, New): Lisi Schoenbach

Pragmatic Modernism (Hardcover, New)

Lisi Schoenbach

Series: Modernist Literature and Culture

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Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and recontextualization. It rediscovers a distinctive response to the social, intellectual, and artistic transformations of modernity in the work of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and William James. These thinkers share an institutionally-grounded approach to change which emphasizes habits, continuities, and daily life over spectacular events, heroic opposition, and radical rupture. Pragmatic modernists developed an active, dialectical approach to habit, maintaining a critical stance toward mindless repetitions while refusing to romanticize moments of shock or conflict. Through its analysis of pragmatist keywords, including "habit," "institution," "prediction," and "bigness," Pragmatic Modernism offers new readings of works by James, Proust, Stein, and Andre Breton, among others. It shows, for instance, how Stein's characteristic literary innovation-her repetitions-aesthetically materialize the problem of habit; and how institutions-businesses, museums, newspapers, the law, and even the state itself-help to construct the subtlest of personal observations and private gestures in James's novels. This study reconstructs an overlooked strain of modernism. In so doing, it helps us to reimagine the stark choice between political quietism and total revolution that has been handed down to us as modernism's legacy.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
Release date: December 2011
First published: November 2011
Authors: Lisi Schoenbach (Associate Professor of English)
Dimensions: 240 x 163 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 224
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538984-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-19-538984-0
Barcode: 9780195389845

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