Richard Lehan: 2 books
Quest West
American Intellectual and Cultural Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Few spaces remain as central to American consciousness as the western frontier. The vast territory, which for generations fueled the desires and conquests of artists, philosophers, and politicians alike, now offers new discoveries in Richard Lehan's Quest West. Through an intellectual and cultural...
Literary Modernism and Beyond
The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition,...