Kristen Case: 2 books
American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice
Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since the Enlightenment....
Thoreauvian Modernities
Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able...