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Pragmatic modernism
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- Creator
- Lisi Schoenbach
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xv, 197 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195389845, 0195389840
- OCLC
- ocn703621230
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Modernist habit -- 'Peaceful and exciting' : habit, shock, and Gertrude Stein's pragmatic modernism -- Interlude : Jamesian institutions -- Prediction theories : 'The path of the law', The wings of the dove, and the engagement with temporality -- A Jamesian state : The American scene and 'the working of Democratic institutions' -- Proustian habit and pragmatic modernism
Subjects
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Philosophy.
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Philosophy.
- Modernism (Literature)
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)
- Pragmatism.
- Habit (Philosophy)
- Social change -- Philosophy.