Pragmatic modernism

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Pragmatic modernism

Lisi Schoenbach

（Modernist literature & culture / Kevin J.H. Dettmar & Masrk Wollaeger, series editors）

Oxford University Press, c2012

  • : pbk

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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2015"--T.p. verso of pbk

Bibliography: p. 171-182

Includes index

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: pbk ISBN 9780190207342

内容説明

Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and recontextualization. It rediscovers a distinctive response to the social, intellectual, and artistic transformations of modernity in the work of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and William James. These thinkers share an institutionally-grounded approach to change which emphasizes habits, continuities, and daily life over spectacular events, heroic opposition, and radical rupture. They developed an active, dialectical attitude that was critical of complacency while refusing to romanticize moments of shock or conflict. Through its analysis of pragmatist keywords, including "habit," "institution," "prediction," and "bigness," Pragmatic Modernism offers new readings of works by James, Proust, Stein, and Andre Breton, among others. It shows, for instance, how Stein's characteristic literary innovation-her repetitions-aesthetically materialize the problem of habit; and how institutions-businesses, museums, newspapers, the law, and even the state itself-help to construct the subtlest of personal observations and private gestures in James's novels. This study reconstructs an overlooked strain of modernism. In so doing, it helps to re-imagine the stark choice between political quietism and total revolution that has been handed down as modernism's legacy.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Editors' Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Pragmatic Modernism
  • Part One Habit
  • Chapter 1
  • Modernist Habit
  • Chapter 2
  • "Peaceful and Exciting": Stein's Dialectic of Habit
  • Part Two Institutions
  • Chapter 3
  • Jamesian Institutions
  • Chapter 4
  • Prediction Theories: "The Path of the Law," The Wings of
  • the Dove, and the Engagement with Temporality
  • Chapter 5
  • A Jamesian State: The American Scene and "the Working of
  • Democratic Institutions"
  • Epilogue
  • Proustian Habit and Pragmatic Modernism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
巻冊次

ISBN 9780195389845

内容説明

Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and recontextualization. It rediscovers a distinctive response to the social, intellectual, and artistic transformations of modernity in the work of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and William James. These thinkers share an institutionally-grounded approach to change which emphasizes habits, continuities, and daily life over spectacular events, heroic opposition, and radical rupture. Pragmatic modernists developed an active, dialectical approach to habit, maintaining a critical stance toward mindless repetitions while refusing to romanticize moments of shock or conflict. Through its analysis of pragmatist keywords, including "habit," "institution," "prediction," and "bigness," Pragmatic Modernism offers new readings of works by James, Proust, Stein, and Andre Breton, among others. It shows, for instance, how Stein's characteristic literary innovation-her repetitions-aesthetically materialize the problem of habit; and how institutions-businesses, museums, newspapers, the law, and even the state itself-help to construct the subtlest of personal observations and private gestures in James's novels. This study reconstructs an overlooked strain of modernism. In so doing, it helps us to reimagine the stark choice between political quietism and total revolution that has been handed down to us as modernism's legacy.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Editors' Foreword
  • Introduction: Pragmatic Modernism 1
  • Part One Habit
  • Chapter 1 Modernist Habit 19
  • Chapter 2 "Peaceful and Exciting": Stein's Dialectic of Habit
  • Part Two Institutions
  • Chapter 3 Jamesian Institutions
  • Chapter 4. Prediction Theories: "The Path of the Law," The Wings of
  • the Dove, and the Engagement with Temporality
  • Chapter 5 A Jamesian State: The American Scene and "the Working of
  • Democratic Institutions"
  • Epilogue: Proustian Habit and Pragmatic Modernism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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