The poetics of transition : Emerson, pragmatism & American literary modernism
Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
9780822322771, 9780822322962, 0822322773, 082232296X
39334691
Life, transition, the energizing spirit
Divine overflowings: Emerson's pragmatic idealism
William James and the metaphorics of transition
The aesthetics of pragmatism
Santayana, Dewey, and the politics of transition
Henry James and the drama of transition
Gertrude Stein and the movement of words
Wallace Stevens and the pragmatist imagination