The poetics of transition : Emerson, pragmatism, & American literary modernism / Jonathan Levin.
| Author/creator | Levin, Jonathan, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xviii, 222 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New Americanists New Americanists. ^A346168 |
| Contents | Life, transition, the energizing spirit -- Divine overflowings: Emerson's pragmatic idealism -- William James and the metaphorics of transition -- The aesthetics of pragmatism -- Santayana, Dewey, and the politics of transition -- Henry James and the drama of transition -- Gertrude Stein and the movement of words -- Wallace Stevens and the pragmatist imagination. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index. |
| LCCN | 98008840 |
| ISBN | 0822322773 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 082232296X (pbk. : alk. paper) |