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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22624831 Title: American literature and the destruction of knowledge : innovative writing in the age of epistemology Author: Ronald E Martin Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, ©1991. ISBN/ISSN: 0822311259 9780822311256 OCLC:22624831

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American literature and the destruction of knowledge : innovative writing in the age of epistemology

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American literature and the destruction of knowledge : innovative writing in the age of epistemology

Author:	Ronald E Martin
Publisher:	Durham : Duke University Press, ©1991.
Edition/Format:	Book : English
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Martin, Ronald E., 1933- American literature and the destruction of knowledge. Durham : Duke University Press, c1991 (OCoLC)645917409
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Ronald E Martin Find more information about:
ISBN:	0822311259 9780822311256
OCLC Number:	22624831
Description:	xxiv, 391 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	The Emersonian myth of knowledge in the New World -- Walt Whitman and the world beyond rationalism -- Herman Melville and the failure of higher truth -- Emily Dickinson and the destruction of the language of knowledge -- Scientists and their knowledge -- Science and the epistemologists -- Literary and philosophical realisms : uncertain paths toward certainty -- Stephen Crane and Robert Frost : nonreflexive perception and dehumanized universe -- The artistic process and the wider event -- Gertrude Stein and the splendid century -- Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway : the discipline of destruction -- Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens : the mind watches the mind hunting the real -- William Carlos Williams : thinking a world without thought -- John Dos Passos : actuality montage (the real event and the speech of the people).
Responsibility:	Ronald E. Martin.

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