Thinking in Search of a Language: Essays on American Intellect and Intuition - Couverture rigide

Friedl, Dr. Herwig

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1501332716 ISBN 13 : 9781501332715

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

A preeminent scholar of American studies explores the American literary and philosophical traditions, and the connections between them, by investigating, first, Emerson's thought and its influence on American writing and, second, the pluralistic and radical ways in which American modernists engaged the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Herwig Friedl is Professor Emeritus of American Literature and History of Ideas at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied American and German Literatures and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and at Cornell University; he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale in 1973/4, a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico in 1984 and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 2002, 2006, and 2007. His book publications include a study of Henry James' aesthetic theory (1972) and, as editor, essay collections on E.L. Doctorow (1986), on Women Studies as Cultural Studies (2000), and on gender and conceptions of space (2006). His numerous essays focus on Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, Modernism, and on American thinking in an international context.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501332716
• ISBN 13: 9781501332715
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 412
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie