The Pragmatist Turn

The Pragmatist Turn
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780813940823
ISBN-13 : 0813940826
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Book Synopsis The Pragmatist Turn by : Giles Gunn

Download or read book The Pragmatist Turn written by Giles Gunn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of feeling, what he calls spiritual imaginaries.Drawing on a large number of figures from earlier periods and examining how they influenced generations of writers from the nineteenth century into the early twenty-first —including Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, William James, Henry James, Kenneth Burke, and Toni Morrison—Gunn reveals how the idea or symbolic imaginary of "America" itself was drastically altered in the process. As only a seasoned scholar can, Gunn here presents the history of American religion and literature in broad strokes necessary to reveal the seismic philosophical shifts that helped form the American canon.


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