Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle

Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction

by Heinz Ickstadt and edited by Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck and Sabine Sielke

Book cover: Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle

Extent: 402 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 279

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2016)

ISBN: 9783825366810

Price: $84.00

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This collection of essays by a leading scholar of American literature and culture demonstrates the impressive scope and depth of Heinz Ickstadt’s scholarly interventions and his intense engagement with crucial concepts and questions that have preoccupied the field of American studies over the past decades. Moving from the philosophy of pragmatism to issues of identity formation, from aesthetic experience to pluralist aesthetics, and from imaginaries of American modernism to strategies of commemoration, Ickstadt’s recent work explores the complexities of the agenda of literary and cultural studies at large.

  • By (author) Heinz Ickstadt
  • Edited by Susanne Rohr
  • Edited by Peter Schneck
  • Edited by Sabine Sielke