Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 198 pages)
ISBN:
9780813940809
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081394080X
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9780813940823
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0813940826
Serie:
Studies in religion and culture
Inhalt:
In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar Giles Gunn offers a new critical history on the ways in which seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of the American literary canon. Engaging with the work of authors ranging from Melville and Douglass to Dickinson and Morrison, he reveals the roots of a pragmatist consciousness at the heart of American culture. -- Back cover
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The difficulty of beginnings -- Puritan ascendance and decline -- Enlightenment and a new age dawning -- The pragmatist refiguration of American narratives -- The Jamesian component -- Religion and the Enlightenment under the sign of the modern and beyond.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gunn, Giles B Pragmatist turn Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017 ISBN 9780813940816
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0813940818
Sprache:
Englisch
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