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- catalog abstract "This book reconsiders the poetics of three modernist writers, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, in connection with the pragmatism of William James. Since the late 1970s, Richard Rorty has written about "neo-pragmatism," a way of testing "truths" according to consequence rather than correspondence. Rorty's "neo-pragmatism" has become the reigning definition of pragmatism, and his interpretation of literary modernism is widely accepted. Patricia Rae's study, while accepting Rorty's view that there is philosophical solidarity between pragmatism and modernism, rejects his interpretation of both as forms of dogmatic skepticism. If pragmatism and modernism coincide, Rae argues, the case of these three writers suggests that the intersection lies not in a rejection of "truthfulness to experience" but in a cautious respect for it. The keystone to this reinterpretation is an account of historical pragmatism in the work of William James, and of the continuity between his careers as a pragmatist and as a psychologist of "inspiration." Where Rortyan pragmatism is dogmatically skeptical and fictionalist, Jamesian pragmatism is cautiously optimistic. As Rae explains, this optimism stems from James's earlier efforts to describe religious inspiration in the discourse of empirical psychology. The case studies of Hulme, Pound, and Stevens trace a similar arc from the theory of creative inspiration to expressive practice. They show that each writer represents the "muse" as an entity similar to James's liminal "divinity." They then explain how each writer regards the muse-figure as provisionally authoritative, and treats its edicts as "practical truths." Finally, they propose a connection between the writers' accounts of inspiration and the various styles of "hypothesis" in their work.".
- catalog contributor b10669809.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-306) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Inspiration, Reflex-action, and Pragmatism -- 1. Pragmatism and Imagism: The "New Classical" Poetics of T.E. Hulme. Romanticism and Classicism Revisited. Daylight Symbolism: Ribot, Bergson, and the conception ideale. The Pragmatic Turn: Jules de Gaultier and Le Bovarysme. The Line and the Fringe: The Pragmatic Function of Resemblance -- 2. The "Image" and the Chess-Game: Ezra Pound's Vorticist Art. James and The Quest. Pound's Mysticism: "Real" Gods and the "Image" Provisional Symbolism: The Analogy as Hypothesis. Rendering the "Image": The "Interpretive Metaphor" Suggestions of Finality: Vorticist Painting and Sculpture -- 3. Effacing the Muse: Inspiration and Virility in Wallace Stevens. Poetry and Manhood.".
- catalog description "Patricia Rae's study, while accepting Rorty's view that there is philosophical solidarity between pragmatism and modernism, rejects his interpretation of both as forms of dogmatic skepticism. If pragmatism and modernism coincide, Rae argues, the case of these three writers suggests that the intersection lies not in a rejection of "truthfulness to experience" but in a cautious respect for it.".
- catalog description "The case studies of Hulme, Pound, and Stevens trace a similar arc from the theory of creative inspiration to expressive practice. They show that each writer represents the "muse" as an entity similar to James's liminal "divinity." They then explain how each writer regards the muse-figure as provisionally authoritative, and treats its edicts as "practical truths." Finally, they propose a connection between the writers' accounts of inspiration and the various styles of "hypothesis" in their work.".
- catalog description "The keystone to this reinterpretation is an account of historical pragmatism in the work of William James, and of the continuity between his careers as a pragmatist and as a psychologist of "inspiration." Where Rortyan pragmatism is dogmatically skeptical and fictionalist, Jamesian pragmatism is cautiously optimistic. As Rae explains, this optimism stems from James's earlier efforts to describe religious inspiration in the discourse of empirical psychology.".
- catalog description "This book reconsiders the poetics of three modernist writers, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, in connection with the pragmatism of William James. Since the late 1970s, Richard Rorty has written about "neo-pragmatism," a way of testing "truths" according to consequence rather than correspondence. Rorty's "neo-pragmatism" has become the reigning definition of pragmatism, and his interpretation of literary modernism is widely accepted.".
- catalog extent "320 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Practical muse.".
- catalog identifier "0838753523 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Practical muse.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Practical muse.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "811/.5209384 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hulme, T. E. (Thomas Ernest), 1883-1917.".
- catalog subject "James, William, 1842-1910 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "PS310.P66 R34 1997".
- catalog subject "Poetics History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Poetics.".
- catalog subject "Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Pragmatism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Inspiration, Reflex-action, and Pragmatism -- 1. Pragmatism and Imagism: The "New Classical" Poetics of T.E. Hulme. Romanticism and Classicism Revisited. Daylight Symbolism: Ribot, Bergson, and the conception ideale. The Pragmatic Turn: Jules de Gaultier and Le Bovarysme. The Line and the Fringe: The Pragmatic Function of Resemblance -- 2. The "Image" and the Chess-Game: Ezra Pound's Vorticist Art. James and The Quest. Pound's Mysticism: "Real" Gods and the "Image" Provisional Symbolism: The Analogy as Hypothesis. Rendering the "Image": The "Interpretive Metaphor" Suggestions of Finality: Vorticist Painting and Sculpture -- 3. Effacing the Muse: Inspiration and Virility in Wallace Stevens. Poetry and Manhood.".
- catalog title "The practical muse : pragmatist poetics in Hulme, Pound, and Stevens / Patricia Rae.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".