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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Grimstad (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Yale)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780190270049ISBN 10: 0190270047 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 May 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction 1/ The Method of Nature The Unitarian Schism Uses of Natural History The Miracles Controversy Joyous Science Amor fati (Beautiful Limits) 2/ Non-Reasoning Creatures Antebellum AI Peirce Machines Jumping To Conclusions Species and Genre Philosophy of Composition 3/ Unearthing Pierre Moby-Dick Reviewed Talking Pictures (Gothic Metaphysics) Chronometricals and Horologicals The Refused Daguerreotype Enceladus and Allegory 4/ The Ambassador Effect Genteel Tradition Two Types of Radical Empiricism The Woollett Scale Two Types of Cosmopolitanism ""Then there we are!"" Conclusion"ReviewsPaul Grimstad's richly conceived study of literary pragmatism from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry and William James...address[es] how, and by what authority, literature becomes other than simply a secondary reflection of preexisting experience or hard empirical fact. ... [An] intelligent and valuable approach.... --American Literature Rigorously argued, this erudite book is a search for the criteria by which literary work begins to mean. Whether he is asking how guessing and perceiving turn into valid judgments, or how the universal is embedded in the particular, Grimstad offers an exhilarating and insightful interpretation of thinking in Poe, Melville, Emerson, and Henry James, reorienting our presumptions concerning how experience fashions literary form. --Branka Arsic, author of On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson Vigorously tracing a range of texts-not just poems and novels but also private journals, personal correspondence, reviews, essays, anecdotes, and manuscripts--Grimstad shows how literary style both registers and extends an ongoing process of reflective 'experimentation.' The result is a book that deepens debates over pragmatism and literature and, more broadly, makes a valuable contribution to discussions of literature and philosophy. --Robert Chodat, author of Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo This is a book that deserves to be widely read. It is smart, engaging, and ambitious, and not since Cavell has Emerson been discussed with such sophistication and insight. Grimstad even manages to make the vexed notion of 'experience' appear serious again. No scholar of American philosophy and literature can afford to ignore Experience and Experimental Writing. --John Gibson, co-editor of The Literary Wittgenstein A rare combination of conceptual breadth, sound scholarship, and inspired close reading, Grimstad's book boldly re-interprets the American literary and philosophical classics as an ongoing experiment in 'wording the world.' --Joseph Urbas, Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, University of Bordeaux This is a book that deserves to be widely read. It is smart, engaging, and ambitious, and not since Cavell has Emerson been discussed with such sophistication and insight. Grimstad even manages to make the vexed notion of 'experience' appear serious again. No scholar of American philosophy and literature can afford to ignore Experience and Experimental Writing. -John Gibson, co-editor of The Literary Wittgenstein Grimstad's provocative book promises to retrieve the concept of experience from the disreputable position it holds in literary studies and philosophy, restoring to our critical vocabularies a word capable, in the best pragmatist fashion, of transforming our interpretive habits and stimulating new intellectual inquiries. -The Los Angeles Review of Books Grimstad's provocative book promises to retrieve the concept of experience from the disreputable position it holds in literary studies and philosophy, restoring to our critical vocabularies a word capable, in the best pragmatist fashion, of transforming our interpretive habits and stimulating new intellectual inquiries. -The Los Angeles Review of Books This is a book that deserves to be widely read. It is smart, engaging, and ambitious, and not since Cavell has Emerson been discussed with such sophistication and insight. Grimstad even manages to make the vexed notion of 'experience' appear serious again. No scholar of American philosophy and literature can afford to ignore Experience and Experimental Writing. -John Gibson, co-editor of The Literary Wittgenstein Author InformationPaul Grimstad's writing has appeared in Bookforum, London Review of Books, New Republic, n+1, Times Literary Supplement, and other journals and magazines. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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