"The Poetics of Transition" examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition--the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement--is infused with power. He then offers a revisionary reading of the pragmatists' view of the permeability of subjective and objective realms and of how American literary modernists stage this permeability in the language and form of their...
"The Poetics of Transition" examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a t...
Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book will interest scholars and students in the fields of literary criticism, neopragmatism, literary modernism, and American literature.
Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movement...
