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Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle
Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction
Herausgeber: Rohr, Susanne | Schneck, Peter | Sielke, Sabine
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 279
2016
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Abstract
This collection of essays by a leading scholar of American literature and culture demonstrates the impressive scope and depth of Heinz Ickstadt’s scholarly interventions and his intense engagement with crucial concepts and questions that have preoccupied the field of American studies over the past decades. Moving from the philosophy of pragmatism to issues of identity formation, from aesthetic experience to pluralist aesthetics, and from imaginaries of American modernism to strategies of commemoration, Ickstadt’s recent work explores the complexities of the agenda of literary and cultural studies at large.
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| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Editors’ Preface | 5 | ||
| Author’s Preface | 7 | ||
| Aesthetic Experience and the Collective Life: An Introduction | 11 | ||
| I TURNING OUTWARD/TURNING INWARD: LATE HOWELLS AND LATE JAMES | 29 | ||
| “Helping my people know themselves”: Novels of William Dean Howells from the Turn of the Century | 31 | ||
| The Reign of Consciousness: Henry James’s Late Phase | 51 | ||
| II AMERICAN MODERNISM: ITS VISIONS AND ITS CONTINUITIES | 67 | ||
| Making It New: Histories and Definitions | 69 | ||
| Imaginaries of American Modernism | 87 | ||
| Transcendentalists and Cultural Nationalists: Painters & Poets of the Stieglitz Circle | 105 | ||
| Hart Crane’s Columbus: The Poet’s Voyage in Search of the Incarnate Word | 123 | ||
| Pound’s "Cantos" as Challenge and Provocation | 137 | ||
| “A clean wind through the chaff of truth”: William Carlos Williams as Critic | 163 | ||
| Verbal Abstraction and the Democratic Promise of Natural Speech: From Williams and Creeley to the Language Poets | 179 | ||
| “Historical imagination gathers in the missing”: History, Memory and Strategies of Commemoration in the Poetry of Susan Howe | 205 | ||
| III VERSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION | 219 | ||
| Manners and the Contemporary Novel | 221 | ||
| History, Utopia and Transcendence in the Space-Time of Pynchon’s "Against the Day" | 247 | ||
| Constructing the Self – Inventing the Other: Race in Novels of the Post-Sixties | 271 | ||
| Finding Voice in Fragmentation: Negotiations of (Female) Identity in North American Migrant Texts | 291 | ||
| “A-synchronous messaging”: The Fictional World of Richard Powers | 307 | ||
| IV AMERICAN STUDIES AND THE PLACE OF THE AESTHETIC | 327 | ||
| Conformism and Non-Conformity as Categories of Literary Criticism | 329 | ||
| American Studies in an Age of Globalization | 345 | ||
| Toward a Pluralist Aesthetics | 361 | ||
| Works Cited | 375 | ||
| Reprint Notices | 401 | ||
| Back Cover | Back C |
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