“Whimsies and Crochets”: Pragmatism, Poetry, and Literary Criticism’s Founding Gesture
Using as its key texts George Oppen’s 21 Poems and I.A. Richards' introduction to The Principles of Literary Criticism, this essay argues, first, that in the early decades of the twentieth century pragmatist epistemology and ethos of participation had a transformative effect on U.S. poetry, and...
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European Association for American Studies
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15631 |