Aesthetic innovation and the democratic principle : essays on twentieth century American poetry and fiction Transcendentalists and Cultural Nationalists: Painters & Poets of the Stieglitz Circle Hart Cranes Columbus: The Poets Voyage in Search of the Incarnate Word Pounds 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 Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Editors Preface Authors 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 Jamess 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 Cranes Columbus: The Poets Voyage in Search of the Incarnate Word Pounds 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 Pynchons 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. Manners and the Contemporary Novel History Utopia and Transcendence in the Space Time of Pynchons 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