Patterns for America : Modernism and the Concept of Culture /

In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the first half of the twent...

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Hlavný autor: Hegeman, Susan (Autor)
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999
Vydanie:Core Textbook
Predmet:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Arts, American.
Arts, Modern > 20th century.
Literature and anthropology > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > United States.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
americká literatúra
ISBN:9781400823222
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Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Domestication of Culture
  • 1. Modernism, Anthropology, Culture
  • 2. Dry Salvages: Spatiality, Nationalism, and the Invention of an "Anthropological" Culture
  • 3. The National Genius: Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the Problem of the Individual
  • 4. Terrains of Culture: Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the Spatialization of the Culture Concept
  • 5. The Culture of the Middle: Class, Taste, and Region in the 1930s Politics of Art
  • 6. "Beyond Relativity": James Agee and Others, Toward the Cold War
  • 7. On Getting Rid of Culture: An Inconclusive Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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