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From nature to experience : the American search for cultural authority /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lundin, Roger
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]
Series:American intellectual culture.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Experience in literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882. > Experience.
Christianity and literature > United States.
United States > Intellectual life.
Pragmatism in literature.
Authority in literature.
Theology in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The preferences of eden
  • Delivered to the dream : Emerson and the pathways of pragmatism
  • Reading the blooming confusion : William James and the theology of experience
  • Diminished things : literature and the disenchantment of the world
  • Divining lives
  • Intentional ironies
  • The truth beyond method : fiction at the limits of experience.