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• catalog abstract "Richard Poirier, one of America's most eminent critics, reveals in this book the creative but mostly hidden alliance between American pragmatism and American poetry. He brilliantly traces pragmatism as a philosophical and literary practice grounded in a linguistic skepticism that runs from Emerson and William James to the work of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens, and on to the cultural debates of today. More powerfully than ever before, Poirier shows that pragmatism had its start in Emerson, the great example to all his successors of how it is possible to redeem even as you set out to change the literature of the past. Poirier demonstrates that Emerson--and later William James--were essentially philosophers of language, and that it is language that embodies our cultural past, an inheritance to be struggled with, and transformed, before being handed on to future generations. He maintains that in Emersonian pragmatist writing, any loss--personal or cultural--gives way to a quest for what he calls "superfluousness," a kind of rhetorical excess by which powerfully creative individuals try to elude deprivation and stasis. In a wide-ranging meditation on what James called "the vague," Poirier extols the authentic voice of individualism, which, he argues, is tentative and casual rather than aggressive and dogmatic. The concluding chapters describe the possibilities for criticism created by this radically different understanding of reading and writing, which are nothing less than a reinvention of literary tradition itself. Poirier's discovery of this tradition illuminates the work of many of the most important figures in American philosophy and poetry. His reanimation of pragmatism also calls for a redirection of contemporary criticism, so that readers inside as well as outside the academy can begin to respond to poetic language as the source of meaning, not to meaning as the source of language.".
• catalog alternative "Poetry & pragmatism.".
• catalog contributor b3628028.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "I. Superfluous Emerson -- II. The transfiguration of work -- III. The reinstatement of the vague -- IV. Reading pragmatically : the example of Hum 6.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Richard Poirier, one of America's most eminent critics, reveals in this book the creative but mostly hidden alliance between American pragmatism and American poetry. He brilliantly traces pragmatism as a philosophical and literary practice grounded in a linguistic skepticism that runs from Emerson and William James to the work of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens, and on to the cultural debates of today. More powerfully than ever before, Poirier shows that pragmatism had its start in Emerson, the great example to all his successors of how it is possible to redeem even as you set out to change the literature of the past. Poirier demonstrates that Emerson--and later William James--were essentially philosophers of language, and that it is language that embodies our cultural past, an inheritance to be struggled with, and transformed, before being handed on to future generations. He maintains that in Emersonian pragmatist writing, any loss--personal or cultural--gives way to a quest for what he calls "superfluousness," a kind of rhetorical excess by which powerfully creative individuals try to elude deprivation and stasis. In a wide-ranging meditation on what James called "the vague," Poirier extols the authentic voice of individualism, which, he argues, is tentative and casual rather than aggressive and dogmatic. The concluding chapters describe the possibilities for criticism created by this radically different understanding of reading and writing, which are nothing less than a reinvention of literary tradition itself. Poirier's discovery of this tradition illuminates the work of many of the most important figures in American philosophy and poetry. His reanimation of pragmatism also calls for a redirection of contemporary criticism, so that readers inside as well as outside the academy can begin to respond to poetic language as the source of meaning, not to meaning as the source of language.".
• catalog extent "228 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Poetry and pragmatism.".
• catalog identifier "0674679903 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Poetry and pragmatism.".
• catalog isPartOf "Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)".
• catalog isPartOf "Convergences".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "Poetry and pragmatism.".
• catalog subject "811/.5209 20".
• catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Influence.".
• catalog subject "James, William, 1842-1910 Influence.".
• catalog subject "PS310.P66 P6 1992".
• catalog subject "Pragmatism in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Superfluous Emerson -- II. The transfiguration of work -- III. The reinstatement of the vague -- IV. Reading pragmatically : the example of Hum 6.".
• catalog title "Poetry & pragmatism.".
• catalog title "Poetry and pragmatism / Richard Poirier.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".