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Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Eric Aronoff
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Hardcover. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
The term ""culture"" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable. The modernist concept of culture, he argues, arose out of an interdisciplinary dialogue about value, meaning, and form among social critics, artists, anthropologists, and literary critics, including figures as diverse as Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, Willa Cather, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ransom, Raymond Weaver, and ... Read more
The term ""culture"" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable. The modernist concept of culture, he argues, arose out of an interdisciplinary dialogue about value, meaning, and form among social critics, artists, anthropologists, and literary critics, including figures as diverse as Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, Willa Cather, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ransom, Raymond Weaver, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934839
SKU
V9780813934839
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About Eric Aronoff
Eric Aronoff is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, USA.
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