Pragmatic modernism [electronic resource] / Lisi Schoenbach.
Material type: TextSeries: Modernist literature & culturePublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 197 p.)ISBN:- 9780199918393 (ebook) :
- Modernism (Literature)
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Philosophy
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Philosophy
- Modernism (Aesthetics)
- Pragmatism
- Habit (Philosophy)
- Social change -- Philosophy
- 809.9112 23
- PS228.M63 S36 2012
'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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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