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American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe

American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe

Case, Kristen

Paperback

Series: Mind and American Literature, Book 1

PhilosophyPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1571139869
ISBN13: 9781571139863
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Feb 15 2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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