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020 _a9781108426879
082 _a810.9
_bSTA/P
100 _aStanley,Kate
245 _a Practices of surprise in American literature after Emerson/
_cKate Stanley
260 _aUnited Kingdom ; New York, NY :
_b Cambridge University Press,
_c2018
300 _axi,240p.
520 _aThis book traces an aesthetics of surprise through the work of major modernist writers and pragmatist philosophers who aimed to harness the experience of the unexpected in their writing and to transmit it to readers. It will serve scholars seeking new perspectives on the relationship between literature and philosophy and literary modernism
942 _cBK
999 _c613341
_d613341