Author: Kate Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.
Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson
Author: Kate Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.
Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson
Author: Kate Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108554199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson locates a paradoxical question - how does one prepare to be surprised? - at the heart of several major modernist texts. Arguing that this paradox of perception gives rise to an American literary methodology, this book dramatically reframes how practices of reading and writing evolved among modernist authors after Emerson. Whereas Walter Benjamin defines modernity as a 'series of shocks' inflicted from without, Emerson offers a countervailing optic that regards life as a 'series of surprises' unfolding from within. While Benjaminian shock elicits intimidation and defensiveness, Emersonian surprise fosters states of responsiveness and spontaneity whereby unexpected encounters become generative rather than enervating. As a study of how such states of responsiveness were cultivated by a post-Emerson tradition of writers and thinkers, this project displaces longstanding models of modernist perception defined by shock's passive duress, and proposes alternate models of reception that proceed from the active practice of surprise.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108554199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson locates a paradoxical question - how does one prepare to be surprised? - at the heart of several major modernist texts. Arguing that this paradox of perception gives rise to an American literary methodology, this book dramatically reframes how practices of reading and writing evolved among modernist authors after Emerson. Whereas Walter Benjamin defines modernity as a 'series of shocks' inflicted from without, Emerson offers a countervailing optic that regards life as a 'series of surprises' unfolding from within. While Benjaminian shock elicits intimidation and defensiveness, Emersonian surprise fosters states of responsiveness and spontaneity whereby unexpected encounters become generative rather than enervating. As a study of how such states of responsiveness were cultivated by a post-Emerson tradition of writers and thinkers, this project displaces longstanding models of modernist perception defined by shock's passive duress, and proposes alternate models of reception that proceed from the active practice of surprise.
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
Author: Jessica Teague
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
American Literature and Immediacy
Author: Heike Schaefer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.
Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era
Author: Ryan M. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History
Author: Juliana Chow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108845711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108845711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: Marianne Noble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481337
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481337
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Sarah E. Chinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009442694
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009442694
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature
Author: Jolene Hubbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009250655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009250655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.
Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature
Author: Mary Grace Albanese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009314254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009314254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.