Poetry and Pragmatism
(Part of the Convergences: Inventories of the Present Series)
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Richard Poirier, one of America's most eminent critics, reveals in this book the creative but mostly hidden alliance between American pragmatism and American poetry. He brilliantly traces pragmatism as a philosophical and literary practice grounded in a linguistic skepticism that runs from Emerson and William James to the work of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens, and on to the cultural debates of today. More powerfully than ever before,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674679911
ISBN13:9780674679917
Release Date:October 1993
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:238 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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