Robert Duncan & the Pragmatist Sublime

by James Maynard

This book examines three historical phases of the poet Robert Duncan's writing within the aesthetic and philosophical context of a pragmatist sublime. The author traces Duncan's poetics of process-which like process philosophy is predicated on conditions, of change and plenitude-to the pragmatist tradition of William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead. Working from this theoretical framework, and using the archival resources of the Robert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826358896
• ISBN13: 9780826358899
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"