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America's modernisms : revaluing the canon : essays in honor of Joseph N. Riddel
- Title
- America's modernisms : revaluing the canon : essays in honor of Joseph N. Riddel / edited by Kathryne V. Lindberg and Joseph G. Kronick.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1996], ©1996.
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- Description
- ix, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- These eleven essays confront the ongoing problem of defining American and modern - terms that often travel together as they defy periodization and other boundaries. Reading questions of nationalism and literature against the grain, the critics represented here address the epistemology and history of literary canonization, not simply the empirics of adding to or subtracting from the American canon.
- As a whole, the volume comprises a range of poststructuralist and postmodern readings of American literature, as well as critiques of American aesthetics. Individually, each essay offers an in-depth and rigorous critique of a key text, or textual knot, in the ongoing and productively self-reflexive enterprise of American literary criticism.
- Series Statement
- Horizons in theory and American culture
- Uniform Title
- Horizons in theory and American culture.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237).
- Contents
- Introduction / Kathryne V. Lindberg -- To Perform - A Transitive Verb? / Joseph N. Riddel -- A demi-mot / Jacques Derrida -- Anarchy and Perfection: Henry Adams, Intelligence, and America / Paul A. Bove -- Henry James, William James, and the Metaphysics of American Thinking / Mark Bauerlein -- At the Crossroads of the Nineteenth Century: "Benito Cereno" and the Sublime / Henry Sussman -- Mute Monuments and Doggerel Epitaphs: Melville's Shattered Sequels / Edgar A. Dryden -- "Riddle the Inevitable": Levinas, Eliot, and the Critical Moment of Ethics / Michael Beehler -- The Trace of the Trenches: Recovering Modernism's World War I / Margot Norris -- A Tale of Two Modernisms, or Richard Rorty's Philosophy as Trojan Horse / Charles Altieri -- Whitman's Body Poetic / John Carlos Rowe -- Jameson's Hyperspace, Heidegger's Rift, Frank Gehry's House / John Johnston -- Afterword: Joseph N. Riddel (1931-1991) / Joseph G. Kronick.
- ISBN
- 0807120189 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95023249
- OCLC
- 32746579
- ocm32746579
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries