Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition throught the prism of pragmatism, this text contests this claim. American poems see more fully and less invasively than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology woulf allow. It also argues that their ways of eseing draw on and develop a vigorous mode of national representation alternative to the appropriate sort found in the quintessential American genre of encounter, the romance.
- ISBN10 067453462X
- ISBN13 9780674534629
- Publish Date 15 May 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 346
- Language English