0813934834

Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture

Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture by Eric Aronoff
English | October 18th, 2013 | ASIN: B00BNX3YM4, ISBN: 0813934834, 0813934842 | 240 Pages | EPUB | 0.56 MB

The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable.