Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson

ISBN-13: 9781108426879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Kate Stanley

Opis

This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.

Recenzje

Kate Stanley's Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson is a dynamic form of intellectual history that, focusing on a poetics of surprise, threads together writers and thinkers from Emerson and William James to Nella Larsen and John Cage. The study lives up to its title by including clever, beautifully crafted readings that show how the practice works. The erudition is breathtaking: this will be an essential resource for scholars in literary studies and of great interest to philosophers of phenomenology. Practices of Surprise reflects a keen knowledge of American pragmatism and contributes to contemporary critical debate about the methods and ends of literary scholarship.' Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Term Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Spis treści

Introduction: through Emerson's eye; 1. Proust's perceptual training; 2. Henry James's syntax of surprise; 3. Nella Larsen's novel weather; 4. Gertrude Stein's grammars of attention; Coda: surprised by silence (listening with Cage).