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Title Stanley Cavell, literature, and film : the idea of America / edited by Andrew Taylor and Áine Kelly
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
Series Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 13
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 13.
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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Subject Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
SUBJECT Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018 fast
Subject Literature -- Philosophy.
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Civilization -- Philosophy
Literature -- Philosophy
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139966
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Taylor, Andrew, 1968- editor.
Kelly, Áine, 1984- editor.
LC no. 2012029117
ISBN 9781136156342
1136156348
9780203078709
0203078705
1283942046
9781283942041