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Understanding James, understanding modernism / edited by David H. Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- James, William, 1842-1910.
- James, William.
- James, William, 1842-1910--Influence.
- Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 315 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2017.
- Summary:
- Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer-William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism. The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its intent to investigate James's influence on both American and International Modernism. It provides, on the one hand, a multifaceted introduction to students of history, philosophy, and culture, and on the other, a compendium of some of the most up-to-date thinking on this central figure. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: unstiffening all our theories: William James and the culture of modernism / David H. Evans
- Conceptualizing James. The character of consciousness / Owen Flanagan and Heather Wallace
- Redeeming the wild universe: William James's Will to believe / John J. Stuhr
- The psychology of religion: William James's The varieties of religious experience / Michael Bacon
- The human contribution: James and modernity in pragmatism and The meaning of truth / Alan Malachowski
- Ever not William James's A pluralistic universe / Barry Allen
- James's radical empiricism / James Campbell
- James and modernist culture. James and Bergson: fighting the beast intellectualism with metaphors / Rosa Slegers
- William James, Henry James and the turn toward modernism / Jill Kress Karn
- "Never reject anything. Nothing has been proved": William James and Gertrude Stein on time and language / David H. Evans
- The varieties of Robert Frost's religious experience / Mark Richardson
- Notes toward the specious present: James and Stevens / Kristen Case
- Modernist figures and James's pluralistic universe / Patricia Rae
- William James's stream of consciousness and the river of the unconscious Joyce and Proust / Gian Balsamo
- "That skilful but slow-moving arranger": habit in James and Proust / Lisi Schoenbach
- William James and Italian pragmatism / Giovanni Maddalena and Michela Bella
- James's pluralism and the problems of modern political and social thought / Robert Danisch.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Understanding James, understanding modernism
- ISBN:
- 9781501302749
- 1501302744
- OCLC:
- 970641485
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