Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture

by Eric Aronoff

Book Overview

The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable. The modernist concept of culture, he argues, arose out of an interdisciplinary dialogue about value,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813934842
• ISBN13: 9780813934846
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"