Description |
1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 13 |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 13.
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Contents |
1. Acknowledging Stanley Cavell : paradox, poiesis, and philosophy in America / Olaf Hansen -- 2. Reading Cavell reading / David Larocca -- 3. Stanley Cavell, "aversive thinking," and Emerson's "party of the future" / David M. Robinson -- 4. Self-relayance : Emerson to Poe / Garrett Stewart -- 5. The haunting of history : Emerson, James, and the ghosts of human suffering / Kristin Boudreau -- 6. Philosophy out of earshot of the school : Tocqueville and the "American philosophical method" / Oisi?n Keohane -- 7. Attachment and detachment in Cavell and Santayana / Paul Jenner -- 8. Agee after Cavell, Cavell after Agee / Paul Anderson -- 9. "A dance of frenzy, a dance of praise" : Fred Astaire acknowledges America / A?ine Kelly -- 10. Cavell, Thoreau, and the movies / Robert B. Ray -- 11. Embodying an American union : Cavell's conjugal and conversational ties / Andrew Taylor -- 12. The experience of the movies : Cavell's Hollywood and Robert Warshow / Rachel Malkin -- 13. Emersonian affinities : reading Richard Ford through Stanley Cavell / Lawrence Rhu |
Summary |
This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell's most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity, the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused, coherent, and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
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SUBJECT |
Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018 fast |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Civilization -- Philosophy
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139966
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United States
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Electronic book
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Author |
Taylor, Andrew, 1968- editor.
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Kelly, Áine, 1984- editor.
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LC no. |
2012029117 |
ISBN |
9781136156342 |
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1136156348 |
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9780203078709 |
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0203078705 |
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1283942046 |
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9781283942041 |
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