Composing cultures : modernism, American literary studies, and the problem of culture / / Eric Aronoff
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3552 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism |
| Popular culture in literature | |
| Literature and society - United States | |
| Culture in literature | |
| Modernism (Literature) - United States | |
| Anthropology in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Composing cultures |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3485-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814616503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cultural Frames, Framing Culture