American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of EpistemologyDuke University Press, 1991 - 391 páginas In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the impulse of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed. Through analyses of these writers, as well as contemporaneous scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and visual artists, American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge creates a panoramic view of American literature over the past 150 years and shows it to be a crucial part of the great philosophical changes of the period. The works of Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson, followed by Crane, Frost, Pound, Stein, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Aiken, Stevens, and Williams, are examined as part of a cultural current that casts doubt on the possibility of knowledge itself. The destruction of concepts, of literary and linguistic forms, was for these writers a precondition for liberating the imagination to gain more access to the self and the real world. As part of the exploration of this cultural context, literary and philosophical realisms are examined together, allowing a comparison of their somewhat different objectives, as well as their common epistemological predicament. |
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The Destruction of Knowledge in the Prescientific | 1 |
Science and the Knowledge of Knowing | 65 |
Science and the Epistemologists | 76 |
Realisms in a Relativistic World | 101 |
Nonreflexive Perception | 121 |
The Revolution in Visual Arts | 145 |
The Artistic Process and the Wider Event | 157 |
The American Writer in the Age of Epistemology | 175 |
of Destruction | 208 |
The Mind | 231 |
Speech of the People | 311 |
Notes | 353 |
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absolute abstraction aesthetic age of epistemology Aiken American approach artists Bergson century characters concepts consciousness conventional Crane critical Critical Realism Cubism cultural Dada dadaists destruction of knowledge Dickinson Emerson Emily Dickinson emotion epistemological Essays example experience Ezra Pound feeling fiction Frost Gertrude Stein Hemingway Hemingway's human ideas imagination individual insight intellectual intuition kind knowing language Letters linguistic literary literature logic look Manhattan Transfer meaning Melville metaphor mind Moby-Dick modern modernist naive naive realism narrative narrator nature needs be needs nineteenth-century novel object painting Passos Passos's perception perspective philosophical Philosophical Realism physical poem poet poetic poetry Pound prose Quoted radical rational realism reality reflexiveness representation seems self-projection sense social Stephen Crane Stevens Stevens's symbols T. S. Eliot techniques theory things thought tion truth twentieth-century University Press verbal visual Wallace Stevens Whitman William Carlos Williams Williams's words writing