American literature and the destruction of knowledge : innovative writing in the age of epistemology /
Martin, Ronald E.,1933-
Durham : Duke University Press,
c1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-381) and index.
The Emersonian myth of knowledge in the New World -- Walt Whitman and the world beyond rationalism -- Herman Melville and the failure of higher truth -- Emily Dickinson and the destruction of the language of knowledge -- Scientists and their knowledge -- Science and the epistemologists -- Literary and philosophical realisms : uncertain paths toward certainty -- Stephen Crane and Robert Frost : nonreflexive perception and dehumanized universe -- The artistic process and the wider event -- Gertrude Stein and the splendid century -- Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway : the discipline of destruction -- Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens : the mind watches the mind hunting the real -- William Carlos Williams : thinking a world without thought -- John Dos Passos : actuality montage (the real event and the speech of the people).
American literature
Literature, Experimental
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Science