Thomas Augst
Biographic Data
| ID | 834561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Augst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Augst |
| SIGNATURE | AUGST T |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Creating the College Man
Literary Practices and the Social Life of Texts
Throughout the twentieth century, as literary texts circulated through high-school and college classrooms, reading became a specialized skill. Especially with the dominance of the “new criticism” in the 1930s, literature acquired an autonomous life as “text,” demanding intensive “close reading” of its verbal complexity and formal coherence as an aesthetic object. Beginning in the 1970s, with the proliferation of programs devoted to African-Americ…
Eloquence Is Power
Composing the Moral Senses
Soulevant la question de la signification de la pratique de la philosophie dans la culture democratique moderne, l'A. se propose d'interpreter l'idee d'attraction que S. Cavell attribue a R. W. Emerson dans le sens d'une reconnaissance de la nature historique et sociale des pratiques litteraires qui contribuent a la decouverte des technologies du soi dans le cadre de la theorie politique. Replacant la notion de caractere au sein de la problematiq…
The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America
The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America: The New York Mercantile Library Thomas Augst (bio) In 1853 the New York Times offered an editorial about the proposed relocation of a popular circulating library uptown. “Should the Mercantile Library Company decide to occupy the Opera House” at Astor Place, joining the Astor Library, the Society Library, and the Historical Society, the largest book collections in New York City would be withi…
The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Cultural Performance
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The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Cultural Performance
The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America
The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America: The New York Mercantile Library Thomas Augst (bio) In 1853 the New York Times offered an editorial about the proposed relocation of a popular circulating library uptown. “Should the Mercantile Library Company decide to occupy the Opera House” at Astor Place, joining the Astor Library, the Society Library, and the Historical Society, the largest book collections in New York City would be withi…
Composing the Moral Senses
Soulevant la question de la signification de la pratique de la philosophie dans la culture democratique moderne, l'A. se propose d'interpreter l'idee d'attraction que S. Cavell attribue a R. W. Emerson dans le sens d'une reconnaissance de la nature historique et sociale des pratiques litteraires qui contribuent a la decouverte des technologies du soi dans le cadre de la theorie politique. Replacant la notion de caractere au sein de la problematiq…
Eloquence Is Power
Literary Practices and the Social Life of Texts
Throughout the twentieth century, as literary texts circulated through high-school and college classrooms, reading became a specialized skill. Especially with the dominance of the “new criticism” in the 1930s, literature acquired an autonomous life as “text,” demanding intensive “close reading” of its verbal complexity and formal coherence as an aesthetic object. Beginning in the 1970s, with the proliferation of programs devoted to African-Americ…
Creating the College Man
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