Kate Stanley

Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson

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Produktbeschreibung

This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426879
• ISBN-10: 1108426875
• Artikelnr.: 51156806

Autorenporträt

Kate Stanley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2013. Her contributions to the study of American literature, modernism, pragmatism, and pedagogy have appeared or are forthcoming in Modernism/modernity, American Literary History, Criticism, Henry James Review, and Women's Studies Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: through Emerson's eye
1. Proust's perceptual training
2. Henry James's syntax of surprise
3. Nella Larsen's novel weather
4. Gertrude Stein's grammars of attention
Coda: surprised by silence (listening with Cage).