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Composing cultures : modernism, American literary studies, and the problem of culture / Eric Aronoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aronoff, Eric Paul Wallach.
- Series:
- Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
- Cultural frames, framing culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Popular culture in literature.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- Culture in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Anthropology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through close readings, Aronoff shows that disciplines and approaches that are often thought of as opposed--cultural anthropology and aesthetics, American literary history and literary criticism, and multiculturalism and regionalism--are in fact engaged in common debate and proceed from shared arguments about culture and form.
- Contents:
- Van Wyck Brooks and Edward Sapir: Divided American and the form of genuine culture
- Possessing culture: Willa Cather's aesthetic of culture in The song of the lark and The professor's house
- The hunt for the whole (whale): Modernist culture and the Melville revival
- Recovering the whole: Culture, region and poetry in the literary criticism of John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate
- Conclusion: Composing critical cultures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813934853
- 0813934850
- OCLC:
- 855907953
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