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Stanley Cavell, literature, and film : the idea of America / edited by Andrew Taylor and Aine Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
- Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cavell, Stanley, 1926-.
- Cavell, Stanley.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- United States--Civilization--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell's most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity, the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused, coherent, and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how
- Contents:
- Cover; Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Stanley Cavell and the Claims of America; 1 Acknowledging Stanley Cavell: Paradox, Poiesis, and Philosophy in America; 2 Reading Cavell Reading; 3 Stanley Cavell, "Aversive Thinking," and Emerson's "Party of the Future"; 4 Self-Relayance: Emerson to Poe; 5 The Haunting of History: Emerson, James, and the Ghosts of Human Suffering; 6 Philosophy Out of Earshot of the School: Tocqueville and the "American Philosophical Method"
- 7 Attachment and Detachment in Cavell and Santayana8 Agee after Cavell, Cavell after Agee; 9 "A Dance of Frenzy, a Dance of Praise": Fred Astaire Acknowledges America; 10 Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies; 11 Embodying an American Union: Cavell's Conjugal and Conversational Ties; 12 The Experience of the Movies: Cavell's Hollywood and Robert Warshow; 13 Emersonian Affinities: Reading Richard Ford through Stanley Cavell; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-15633-X
- 1-283-94204-6
- 0-203-07870-5
- 1-136-15634-8
- 9780203078709
- OCLC:
- 823719239
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