Background
Martin, Ronald Edward was born on June 30, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Hargrave and Lucille Caroline (Fisher) Martin.
( In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the...)
In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the impulse of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed. Through analyses of these writers, as well as contemporaneous scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and visual artists, American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge creates a panoramic view of American literature over the past 150 years and shows it to be a crucial part of the great philosophical changes of the period. The works of Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson, followed by Crane, Frost, Pound, Stein, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Aiken, Stevens, and Williams, are examined as part of a cultural current that casts doubt on the possibility of knowledge itself. The destruction of concepts, of literary and linguistic forms, was for these writers a precondition for liberating the imagination to gain more access to the self and the real world. As part of the exploration of this cultural context, literary and philosophical realisms are examined together, allowing a comparison of their somewhat different objectives, as well as their common epistemological predicament.
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Martin, Ronald Edward was born on June 30, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Hargrave and Lucille Caroline (Fisher) Martin.
AB, Carroll College, 1955. AM, Boston University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1963.
Instructor Boston (Massachusetts) University, 1961-1962. From assistant to full professor University Delaware, Newark, since 1962. Fulbright district lecturer American studies, Odense, Denmark, 1993-1994.
( In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the...)
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Member American Association of University Professors, American Studies International, Society for Literature and Science.
Married Barbara Kathleen Paterson, June 23, 1956. Children: Kathleen Lucille Beicht, Christopher Edward, Susan Alberta.