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Contingency blues : the search for foundations in American criticism
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- English
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- 1st ed
- [Place of publication not identified] University of Wisconsin Press 1997
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- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780299154134, 0299154130, 0299154149
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- English
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Modernity and Nature in Emerson -- 2. Emerson, Whitman, and the Problem of Culture -- 3. George Santayana and Van Wyck Brooks: Pragmatism and the Genteel Tradition -- 4. John Dewey: Pragmatism, Modernism, and Aesthetic Criticsm -- 5. Kenneth Burke: Modernism and the Motives of Rhetoric -- Conclusion Rhetoric, Neopragmatism, Border Studies - Beyond the Contingency Blues -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index