Ickstadt / Rohr / Schneck Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle

Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7657-4
Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 279, 408 Seiten, PDF

Reihe: American Studies - A Monograph Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ickstadt, Heinz

Rohr, Susanne

Schneck, Peter

Sielke, Sabine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Contents;8
5;Editors’ Preface;10
6;Author’s Preface;12
7;Aesthetic Experience and the Collective Life: An Introduction;16
8;I TURNING OUTWARD/TURNING INWARD: LATE HOWELLS AND LATE JAMES;34
8.1;“Helping my people know themselves”: Novels of William Dean Howells from the Turn of the Century;36
8.2;The Reign of Consciousness: Henry James’s Late Phase;56
9;II AMERICAN MODERNISM: ITS VISIONS AND ITS CONTINUITIES;72
9.1;Making It New: Histories and Definitions;74
9.2;Imaginaries of American Modernism;92
9.3;Transcendentalists and Cultural Nationalists: Painters & Poets of the Stieglitz Circle;110
9.4;Hart Crane’s Columbus: The Poet’s Voyage in Search of the Incarnate Word;128
9.5;Pound’s "Cantos" as Challenge and Provocation;142
9.6;“A clean wind through the chaff of truth”: William Carlos Williams as Critic;168
9.7;Verbal Abstraction and the Democratic Promise of Natural Speech: From Williams and Creeley to the Language Poets;184
9.8;“Historical imagination gathers in the missing”: History, Memory and Strategies of Commemoration in the Poetry of Susan Howe;210
10;III VERSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION;224
10.1;Manners and the Contemporary Novel;226
10.2;History, Utopia and Transcendence in the Space-Time of Pynchon’s "Against the Day";252
10.3;Constructing the Self – Inventing the Other: Race in Novels of the Post-Sixties;276
10.4;Finding Voice in Fragmentation: Negotiations of (Female) Identity in North American Migrant Texts;296
10.5;“A-synchronous messaging”: The Fictional World of Richard Powers;312
11;IV AMERICAN STUDIES AND THE PLACE OF THE AESTHETIC;332
11.1;Conformism and Non-Conformity as Categories of Literary Criticism;334
11.2;American Studies in an Age of Globalization;350
11.3;Toward a Pluralist Aesthetics;366
12;Works Cited;380
13;Reprint Notices;406
14;Back Cover;408