The poetics of transition : Emerson, pragmatism, & American literary modernism / Jonathan Levin.

SeriesNew 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index.
LCCN 98008840
ISBN0822322773 (alk. paper)
ISBN082232296X (pbk. : alk. paper)