Hegeman Patterns for America

Modernism and the Concept of Culture
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2322-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hegeman, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Domestication of Culture 3

1 Modernism, Anthropology, Culture 15

2 Dry Salvages: Spatiality, Nationalism, and the Invention of an "Anthropological" Culture 32

3 The National Genius: Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the Problem of the Individual 66

4 Terrains of Culture: Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the Spatialization of the Culture Concept 93

5 The Culture of the Middle: Class, Taste, and Region in the 1930s Politics of Art 126

6 "Beyond Relativity": James Agee and Others, Toward the Cold War 158

7 On Getting Rid of Culture: An Inconclusive Conclusion 193

Notes 215

Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Hegeman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida. She has published a variety of articles in the areas of cultural studies, American studies, and Native-American studies.