LEADER 04958nam 2200841Ia 450 001 9910780057503321 005 20230422042454.0 010 $a1-4008-0356-X 010 $a1-282-75380-0 010 $a9786612753800 010 $a1-4008-2322-6 010 $a1-4008-1203-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823222 035 $a(CKB)111056486498162 035 $a(EBL)617315 035 $a(OCoLC)705527090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000218866 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175964 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218866 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10228857 035 $a(PQKB)10185133 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617315 035 $a(OCoLC)51311740 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36072 035 $a(DE-B1597)446181 035 $a(OCoLC)979905080 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823222 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617315 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10412044 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275380 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486498162 100 $a19980914d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPatterns for America$b[electronic resource] $emodernism and the concept of culture /$fSusan Hegeman 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-00134-0 311 $a0-691-00133-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-257) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. The Domestication of Culture --$t1. Modernism, Anthropology, Culture --$t2. Dry Salvages: Spatiality, Nationalism, and the Invention of an "Anthropological" Culture --$t3. The National Genius: Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the Problem of the Individual --$t4. Terrains of Culture: Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the Spatialization of the Culture Concept --$t5. The Culture of the Middle: Class, Taste, and Region in the 1930's Politics of Art --$t6. "Beyond Relativity": James Agee and Others, Toward the Cold War --$t7. On Getting Rid of Culture: An Inconclusive Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how, during this period, the term "culture" changed from being a technical term associated primarily with anthropology into a term of popular usage. She shows the connections between this movement of "culture" into the mainstream and the emergence of a distinctive "American culture," with its own patterns, values, and beliefs. Hegeman points to the significant similarities between the conceptions of culture produced by anthropologists Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, and a diversity of other intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Dwight Macdonald. Hegeman reveals how relativist anthropological ideas of human culture--which stressed the distance between modern centers and "primitive" peripheries--came into alliance with the evaluating judgments of artists and critics. This anthropological conception provided a spatial awareness that helped develop the notion of a specifically American "culture." She also shows the connections between this new view of "culture" and the artistic work of the period by, among others, Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, Thomas Hart Benton, Nathanael West, and James Agee and depicts in a new way the richness and complexity of the modernist milieu in the United States. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aLiterature and anthropology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCulture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zUnited States 606 $aArts, Modern$y20th century 606 $aArts, American 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aLiterature and anthropology$xHistory 615 0$aCulture$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics) 615 0$aArts, Modern 615 0$aArts, American. 676 $a810.9/112 700 $aHegeman$b Susan$f1964-$01464732 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780057503321 996 $aPatterns for America$93674529 997 $aUNINA