American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology

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In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the impulse of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed. Through analyses of these writers, as well as contemporaneous scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and visual artists, American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge creates a...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0822311259

ISBN13:9780822311256

Release Date:April 1991

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:416 Pages

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