Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses

by Paul Grimstad

Book Overview

American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots. But, as Paul Grimstad shows, the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit of earlier experiments in American literature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and (contemporaneously with the flowering of pragmatism) Henry James, each in their different ways prefigure at the level of literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190270047
• ISBN13: 9780190270049
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"