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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Aronoff, Eric Paul Wallach (1968-....)
Titre(s) : Composing cultures [Texte imprimé] : modernism, American literary studies, and the problem of culture / Eric Aronoff
Publication : Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Description matérielle : x-226 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : Cultural frames, framing culture
Lien à la collection : Cultural frames, framing culture
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-217) and index
"The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations,
but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies
to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in
American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable.
The modernist concept of culture, he argues, arose out of an interdisciplinary dialogue
about value, meaning, and form among social critics, artists, anthropologists, and
literary critics, including figures as diverse as Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, Willa
Cather, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ransom, Raymond Weaver, and Allen Tate. These figures
proposed new ways to conceive of culture that intertwined theories of aesthetic and
literary value with theories of national, racial, and regional identity. 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."--Publisher website
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine
Culture populaire -- Dans la littérature
Modernisme (littérature) -- États-Unis
Anthropologie -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813934839. - ISBN 0813934834. - ISBN 9780813934846. - ISBN 0813934842. -
ISBN 9780813934853 (erroné). - ISBN 0813934850 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438765445
Notice n° :
FRBNF43876544
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