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Author Ickstadt, Heinz

Title Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle : Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction
Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (408 pages)
Series American Studies -- A Monograph Series ; v. 279
American Studies -- A Monograph Series
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Preface; Author's Preface; Aesthetic Experience and the Collective Life: An Introduction; I TURNING OUTWARD/TURNING INWARD: LATE HOWELLS AND LATE JAMES; "Helping my people know themselves": Novels of William Dean Howells from the Turn of the Century; The Reign of Consciousness: Henry James's Late Phase; II AMERICAN MODERNISM: ITS VISIONS AND ITS CONTINUITIES; Making It New: Histories and Definitions; Imaginaries of American Modernism; Transcendentalists and Cultural Nationalists: Painters & Poets of the Stieglitz Circle
Hart Crane's Columbus: The Poet's Voyage in Search of the Incarnate WordPound's ""Cantos"" as Challenge and Provocation; "A clean wind through the chaff of truth": William Carlos Williams as Critic; Verbal Abstraction and the Democratic Promise of Natural Speech: From Williams and Creeley to the Language Poets; "Historical imagination gathers in the missing": History, Memory and Strategies of Commemoration in the Poetry of Susan Howe; III VERSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION; Manners and the Contemporary Novel
History, Utopia and Transcendence in the Space-Time of Pynchon's ""Against the Day""Constructing the Self -- Inventing the Other: Race in Novels of the Post-Sixties; Finding Voice in Fragmentation: Negotiations of (Female) Identity in North American Migrant Texts; "A-synchronous messaging": The Fictional World of Richard Powers; IV AMERICAN STUDIES AND THE PLACE OF THE AESTHETIC; Conformism and Non-Conformity as Categories of Literary Criticism; American Studies in an Age of Globalization; Toward a Pluralist Aesthetics; Works Cited; Reprint Notices; Back Cover
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Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Rohr, Susanne
Schneck, Peter
Sielke, Sabine
ISBN 3825376575
3825366812
9783825366810
9783825376574