Experience and experimental writing literary pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses - Grimstad, Paul (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit, this book argues, of earlier literary experiments in American literature
Keywords: Geschichte 1830-1900; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Experience in literature; Literary form; Literature, Experimental; Pragmatism in literature; Experimentele fictie; Literaire genres; American literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism; Pragmatismus; Experimentelle Literatur; USA