Composing cultures : modernism, American literary studies, and the problem of culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aronoff, Eric Paul Wallach
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Series:	Cultural frames, framing culture.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Popular culture in literature. Literature and society > United States. Culture in literature. Modernism (Literature) > United States. Anthropology in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Van Wyck Brooks and Edward Sapir: Divided American and the form of genuine culture
Possessing culture: Willa Cather's aesthetic of culture in The song of the lark and The professor's house
The hunt for the whole (whale): Modernist culture and the Melville revival
Recovering the whole: Culture, region and poetry in the literary criticism of John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate
Conclusion: Composing critical cultures.