Still the New World
American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
Seiten
2000
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00409-2 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00409-2 (ISBN)
This provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of American literary tradition argues against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940 the book reconsiders key works in the American canon—from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West.
In this bold reinterpretation of American culture, Philip Fisher describes generational life as a series of renewed acts of immigration into a new world. Along with the actual flood of immigrants, technological change brings about an immigration of objects and systems, ways of life and techniques for the distribution of ideas.
A provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of literary tradition, Still the New World makes a persuasive argument against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940, when, Fisher argues, the American cultural and economic system was set in place, the book reconsiders key works in the American canon--from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, James, Howells, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West, with insights into such artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. With striking clarity, Fisher shows how these artists created and recreated a democratic poetics marked by a rivalry between abstraction, regionalism, and varieties of realism--and in doing so, defined American culture as an ongoing process of creative destruction.
In this bold reinterpretation of American culture, Philip Fisher describes generational life as a series of renewed acts of immigration into a new world. Along with the actual flood of immigrants, technological change brings about an immigration of objects and systems, ways of life and techniques for the distribution of ideas.
A provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of literary tradition, Still the New World makes a persuasive argument against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940, when, Fisher argues, the American cultural and economic system was set in place, the book reconsiders key works in the American canon--from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, James, Howells, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West, with insights into such artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. With striking clarity, Fisher shows how these artists created and recreated a democratic poetics marked by a rivalry between abstraction, regionalism, and varieties of realism--and in doing so, defined American culture as an ongoing process of creative destruction.
Philip Fisher is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University.
Introduction American Abstraction Democratic Social Space Whitman and the Poetics of a Democratic Social Space Defecting from American Abstraction Transparency and Obscurity: Melville's Benito Cereno Hierarchical Social Space: Twain, James, and Howells Regionalism Membership and Identity Episodes of Regionalism Realism Realisms of Detail, State, and Voice Inventing New Frames for Realism Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2000 |
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Zusatzinfo | 5 halftones, 1 line illustration |
Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 417 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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ISBN-10 | 0-674-00409-4 / 0674004094 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00409-2 / 9780674004092 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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