Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
Contents
Life, transition, the energizing spirit -- Divine overflowings : Emerson's pragmatic idealism -- William James and the metaphorics of transition -- The aesthetics of pragmatism -- Santayana, Dewey, and the politics of transition -- Henry James and the drama of transition -- Gertrude Stein and the movement of words -- Wallace Stevens and the pragmatist imagination.