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Autore |
Aronoff Eric Paul Wallach |
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Titolo |
Composing cultures : modernism, American literary studies, and the problem of culture / / Eric Aronoff |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cultural frames, framing culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Popular culture in literature |
Literature and society - United States |
Culture in literature |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
Anthropology in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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