Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson

by Kate Stanley

Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson locates a paradoxical question - how does one prepare to be surprised? - at the heart of several major modernist texts. Arguing that this paradox of perception gives rise to an American literary methodology, this book dramatically reframes how practices of reading and writing evolved among modernist authors after Emerson. Whereas Walter Benjamin defines modernity as a 'series of shocks' inflicted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108426875
• ISBN13: 9781108426879
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"