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

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Author / Creator:Aronoff, Eric Paul Wallach, author.
Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Description:x, 226 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture
Cultural frames, framing culture.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9626066
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ISBN:9780813934839 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0813934834 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780813934846 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0813934842 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780813934853 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The problem of culture
  • 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
  • Culture, canons, and cetology: 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.