Pragmatic Modernism

Pragmatic Modernism
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780195389845
ISBN-13 : 0195389840
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Book Synopsis Pragmatic Modernism by : Lisi Schoenbach

Download or read book Pragmatic Modernism written by Lisi Schoenbach and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernism influenced by pragmatist philosophy and characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and habit rather than spectacular events and radical rupture. Through original readings of Gertrude Stein, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., this study rediscovers an overlooked cultural and social matrix and suggests an expanded range of responses to modernity.


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