Pragmatic modernism
By: Lisi Schoenbach
Series: Modernist literature & culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195389845
Subjects: Philosophy; History and criticism; American literature; Social change; Modernism (Literature); Pragmatism; Habit (Philosophy); Modernism (Aesthetics)
Description: 'Pragmatic Modernism' traces an alternative strain of modernism influenced by pragmatist philosophy and characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and habit rather than spectacular events and radical rupture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernist habit; title: 'Peaceful and exciting' : habit, shock, and Gertrude Stein's pragmatic modernism; title: Interlude : Jamesian institutions; title: Prediction theories : 'The path of the law', The wings of the dove, and the engagement with temporality; title: A Jamesian state : The American scene and 'the working of Democratic institutions'; title: Proustian habit and pragmatic modernism.