TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jay,Paul
TI  - Contingency blues: the search for foundations in American criticism 
T2  - The Wisconsin project on American writers
SN  - 0585136246
AV  - PS25 .J395 1997eb
U1  - 810.9 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Madison, Wis.
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - United States
KW  - Criticism
KW  - History
KW  - Pragmatism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - gtt
KW  - Amerikaans
KW  - Pragmatisme
KW  - Modernisme (cultuur)
KW  - English
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - American Literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-216) and index; Modernity and nature in Emerson --; Emerson, Whitman, and the problem of culture --; George Santayana and Van Wyck Brooks: Pragmatism and the genteel tradition --; John Dewey: Pragmatism, modernism, and aesthetic criticism --; Kenneth Burke: Modernism and the motives of rhetoric --; Conclusion: Rhetoric, neopragmatism, border studies -- Beyond the contingency blues
N2  - "Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first, which includes Richard Poirier and Giles Gunn, has attempted to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James, and Dewey. The second, represented most forcefully by Richard Rorty, tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge. In chapters on Emerson, Whitman, Santayana, Van Wyck Brooks, Dewey, and Kenneth Burke, Jay examines the historical roots of these two positions, which he argues are marked by recurrent attempts to reconcile transcendentalism and pragmatism. A forceful rejection of both kinds of revisionism, Contingency Blues locates an alternative in the work of the "border studies" critics, those who give our interest in contingency a new, more concrete form by taking an historical, cultural, and anthropological approach to the invention of literature, subjectivity community and culture in a pan-American context."--Jacket
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