| Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism Contributor(s): Jay, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299154149 ISBN-13: 9780299154141 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: This excellent book, sharply and helpful mediates the recent debates sparked by pragmatist attacks on foundationalism over the 'legitimation crisis' of modernity, and it shows, as no book has done, the specific relevance of these debates to American cultural criticism since Emerson. Part intellectual history, part cultural critique, this provocative book is an effort to shake American thought out of the grip of the nineteenth century-and out of its contingency blues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| LCCN: 96-42533 |
| Series: Wisconsin Project on American Writers |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.99" W x 8.97" (0.71 lbs) 234 pages |
