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  1. Experience and experimental writing
    literary pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses
    Published: c 2013
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780199874071
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    Subjects: American literature; Pragmatism in literature; Literature, Experimental; Experience in literature; Literary form; Literature
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  2. Captured in the Middle
    Tradition and Experience in Contemporary Native American Writing
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Washington Press, Seattle

    Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- House Made of Cards: The Construction of American Indians -- American Indians, Authenticity, and the Future -- Vine Deloria Jr. : Reconstructing the Logic of Belief -- Constituting and Preserving Self through... more

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    Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- House Made of Cards: The Construction of American Indians -- American Indians, Authenticity, and the Future -- Vine Deloria Jr. : Reconstructing the Logic of Belief -- Constituting and Preserving Self through Writing -- Louise Erdrich: Protecting and Celebrating Culture -- James Welch's "Indian Lawyer" -- Pragmatism and American Indian Thought -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

     

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    ISBN: 9780295981321
    Series: McLellan
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    Subjects: American literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc; American literature ; Indian authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc; Experience in literature; Group identity in literature; Indians in literature; Indians of North America ; Intellectual life; Electronic books
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    ""Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""House Made of Cards: The Construction of American Indians ""; ""American Indians, Authenticity, and the Future ""; ""Vine Deloria Jr. : Reconstructing the Logic of Belief ""; ""Constituting and Preserving Self through Writing ""; ""Louise Erdrich: Protecting and Celebrating Culture ""; ""James Welch's ""Indian Lawyer"" ""; ""Pragmatism and American Indian Thought ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""

  3. The ruins of experience
    Scotland's "romantick" highlands and the birth of the modern witness
    Published: ©2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

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    Main description: "A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture."—Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario "A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture."—Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario

     

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  4. Captured in the middle
    tradition and experience in contemporary Native American writing
    Published: c2000
    Publisher:  University of Washington Press, Seattle, Wash

    Annotation Introduction -- House made of cards : the construction of American Indians -- American Indians, authenticity, and the future -- Vine Deloria, Jr. : reconstructing the logic of belief -- Constituting and preserving self through writing --... more

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    Annotation Introduction -- House made of cards : the construction of American Indians -- American Indians, authenticity, and the future -- Vine Deloria, Jr. : reconstructing the logic of belief -- Constituting and preserving self through writing -- Louise Erdrich : protecting and celebrating culture -- James Welch's Indian lawyer -- Pragmatism and American Indian thought -- Conclusion. Sidner Larson's Captured in the Middle embodies the very nature of Indian storytelling, which is circular, drawing upon the personal experiences of the narrator at every turn, to argue that contemporary Native American literary criticism is stalled. On one hand are the scholars who portray Indians stereotypically, assuming that the experiences of all tribal groups have largely been the same. On the other hand are those scholars who focus on the "authenticity" of the writer. In contrast, Larson considers the scholarship of Vine Deloria, Jr., who has a genuine understanding of the balance required in dealing with these issues. Two writers who have successfully redescribed many of the contemporary romantic stereotypes are James Welch and Louise Erdrich, both northern Plains Indians whose works are markedly different, their writing highlighting the disparate ways tribal groups have responded to colonization. Larson describes Indians today as postapocalyptic peoples who have already lived through the worst imaginable suffering. By confronting the issues of fear, suppression, and lost identity through literature, Indians may finally move forward to imagine and create for themselves a better future, serving as models for the similarly fractured cultures found throughout the world today

     

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    ISBN: 9780295800738; 0295800739
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    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Indians of North America; Littérature américaine; Littérature américaine; Indiens d'Amérique; Identité collective dans la littérature; Expérience dans la littérature; Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature; Group identity in literature; Experience in literature; Indians in literature; Group identity in literature; Experience in literature; Indians in literature; Indians of North America; American literature; American literature; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Native American Studies; Experience in literature; Literatur; Schriftsteller; American literature ; Indian authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc; American literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc; Indians of North America ; Intellectual life; Group identity in literature; Indians in literature; Littérature américaine ; Auteurs indiens ; Histoire et critique ; Théorie, etc; Littérature américaine ; 20e siècle ; Histoire et critique ; Théorie, etc; Indiens ; Amérique du Nord ; Vie intellectuelle; Identité collective ; Dans la littérature; Indiens ; Dans la littérature; Geschichte 1900-2000; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
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    IntroductionHouse made of cards : the construction of American Indians -- American Indians, authenticity, and the future -- Vine Deloria, Jr. : reconstructing the logic of belief -- Constituting and preserving self through writing -- Louise Erdrich : protecting and celebrating culture -- James Welch's Indian lawyer -- Pragmatism and American Indian thought -- Conclusion.

  5. Henry James and the language of experience
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In Henry James and the Language of Experience, Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. Meissner argues that, for James, experience was a private and public event, a... more

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    In Henry James and the Language of Experience, Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. Meissner argues that, for James, experience was a private and public event, a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world. Adapting recent work in hermeneutics and phenomenology, Meissner shows how James's understanding of the process of consciousness is not simply an aspect of literary form; it is in fact inherently political, as it requires an active engagement with the full complexity of social reality. For James, the civic value of art resided in this interactive process, one in which the reader becomes aware of the aesthetic experience as immediate and engaged. This wide-ranging study combines literary theory and close readings of James's work to argue for a redefinition of the aesthetic as it operates in James's work The experience of Jamesian hermeneutics -- The experience of divestiture: toward an understanding of the self in The American -- Bondage and boundaries: Isabel Archer's failed experience -- Lambert Strether and the negativity of experience -- Recovery and revelation: the experience of self-exposure in James's autobiography

     

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    Subjects: Language and languages; Aesthetics; Consciousness in literature; Experience in literature; James, Henry ; 1843-1916 ; Political and social views; James, Henry ; 1843-1916 ; Language; Language and languages ; Political aspects; Aesthetics ; Political aspects; Consciousness in literature; Experience in literature
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  6. The ruins of experience
    Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

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    "A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture."--Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal -- Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable -- PART I: STRUCTURE -- 1 A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness -- 2 Aftershocks of the Appin Murder: Scott, Stevenson, and "Storytell[ing] -- 3 Evidence and Equivalence: The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress -- 4 Improvement and Apocalypse: Afterimages of the "Promised Land" of Modern Romance -- PART II: FEELING -- 5 The Compulsions of Immediacy: Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies -- 6 Of Mourning and Machinery: Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision -- 7 Highland Romance in Late Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

     

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    ISBN: 0812239717; 9780812239713
    Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Literature; Scottish literature; Subjectivity in literature; Witnesses in literature; Evidence (Law); Experience in literature; English literature; English literature ; Scottish authors ; History and criticism; Evidence (Law); Experience in literature; Knowledge, Theory of; Literature ; History and criticism; Scottish literature ; History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Electronic books
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    Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives

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    ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal""; ""Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable""; ""PART I: STRUCTURE""; ""1 A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness""; ""2 Aftershocks of the Appin Murder: Scott, Stevenson, and ""Storytell[ing]""""; ""3 Evidence and Equivalence: The Parallel Logics of Proof and Progress""; ""4 Improvement and Apocalypse: Afterimages of the ""Promised Land"" of Modern Romance""; ""PART II: FEELING""

    ""5 The Compulsions of Immediacy: Macpherson, Wilkomirski, and Their Fragments Controversies""""6 Of Mourning and Machinery: Contrasting Techniques of Highland Vision""; ""7 Highland Romance in Late Modernity""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""

  7. From Philosophy to Poetry
    TS Eliot''s Study of Knowledge and Experience
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing, London

    In this text, Professor Child examines T.S. Eliot''s relationship between his writing of poetry and his philosophical pursuits, in particular his lifelong occupation with the work of F.H. Bradley, Henri Bergson and William James. This account also... more

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    In this text, Professor Child examines T.S. Eliot''s relationship between his writing of poetry and his philosophical pursuits, in particular his lifelong occupation with the work of F.H. Bradley, Henri Bergson and William James. This account also considers the reception of Eliot''s writing in philosophy and argues that the study of this work has significantly entered recent Eliot criticism. Overall, this volume provides a new reading of Eliot''s famous poems, his literary criticism and social commentary

     

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    Subjects: Eliot, T. S. -- (Thomas Stearns), -- 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, T. S. -- (Thomas Stearns), -- 1888-1965 -- Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; Experience in literature; Eliot, T. S ; (Thomas Stearns) ; 1888-1965 ; Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, T. S ; (Thomas Stearns) ; 1888-1965 ; Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; Experience in literature; Electronic books
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    Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Received Wisdom: The Critical Reception of Eliot''s Early Work in Philosophy; 1 Eliot''s Rhapsody of Bergsonian Knowledge and Experience; 2 Ungrammatical Knowledge and Experience in ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''; 3 The Occultation of Knowledge and Experience in The Waste Land; 4 The Metamorphoses of Knowledge and Experience from ''The Death of Saint Narcissus'' to Burnt Norton; 5 Etherised upon a Table: Knowledge and Experience and Its Metaphorical Operations; 6 Mystical and Pragmatic Knowledge and Experience in Four Quartets

    7 American Knowledge and Experience in Eliot''s Puritan JeremiadNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

  8. Poetyka doswiadczenia
    teoria, nowoczesnos´c´, literatura
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Inst. Badań Literackich, Warszawa

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    Subjects: Literature; Poetics; Civilization, Modern; Experience in literature
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  9. Formalism, experience, and the making of American literature in the nineteenth century
    Author: Davis, Theo
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson,... more

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    Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted investigations of experience are actually based in a belief that experience is an abstract category governed by typicality, not the property of the individual subject. Additionally, these authors locate the form of the literary work in the domain of abstract experience, projected out of - not embodied in - the text. After tracing the emergence of these beliefs out of Scottish common sense philosophy and through early American literary criticism, Davis analyses how American authors' prose seeks to work an art of abstract experience. In so doing, she reconsiders the place of form in modern literary studies Introduction: new critical formalism and identity in Americanist criticism -- Types of interest: Scottish theory, literary nationalism, and John Neal -- Sensing Hawthorne: the figure of Hawthorne's affect -- "Life is an ecstasy": Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott -- Laws of experience: truth and feeling in Harriet Beecher Stowe

     

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