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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453889803321

Autore

Magee Michael <1971->

Titolo

Emancipating pragmatism [[electronic resource] ] : Emerson, jazz, and experimental writing / / Michael Magee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8204-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Disciplina

814/.3

Soggetti

Literature, Experimental - History and criticism

Jazz - History and criticism

Pragmatism in literature

Music and literature

Race in literature

Poetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Toward a Theory of Democratic Symbolic Action; 2. The Motives of Emancipated Prose: Emerson and the Collaborating Reader; 3. Ralph Waldo's Blues, Take 2: Ellison's Changes; 4. Tribes of New York: Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, and the Poetics of the Five Spot; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A daring and innovative study that rewrites the story of American pragmatism.   Emancipating Pragmatism is a radical rereading of Emerson that posits African- American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition. It traces Emerson's philosophical legacy through the 19th and 20th centuries to discover how Emersonian thought continues to inform issues of race, aesthetics, and poetic discourse.   Emerson's pragmatism derives from his abolitionism, Michael Magee argues, and a



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Record Nr.

UNISA996386020903316

Autore

Heywood Thomas <approximately 1574-1641.>

Titolo

The second part of, If you know not me, you know no bodie [[electronic resource] ] : VVith the building of the Royall Exchange: and the famous victorie of Queene Elizabeth, in the yeare 1588

Pubbl/distr/stampa

At London, : Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Nathaniell Butter, 1606

Descrizione fisica

[76] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

By Thomas Heywood.

Partly in verse.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-I⁴ K² .

Running title reads: If you know not me, you know no body.

Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113