Poetry and Pragmatism.

Beidler, Philip D.; Poirier, Richard

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“…In contrast to phenomenological attempts like Scheler's to distinguish esthetic ends and effects from normal "utilitarian" ends of social cooperation, what is unique about Buck's work is the sustained attempt to keep all these things together with a more encompassing view of social functions. In this way, Buck also provides a HUEBNER | 15 of 20 unique contribution to the emerging scholarship that has sought to reinterpret literature in pragmatist terms (e.g., Cherryholmes, 1999;Gunn, 2014;Poirier, 1992). These authors have sought to counter a matter-of-fact pragmatism that dismisses literature as "impractical" by recuperating a pragmatist esthetics to understand the effects of literature, the communicative nature of literature, and its emphasis on inclusivity as a driver of more fulfilling consequences.…”

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Language as social action: Gertrude Buck, the “Michigan School” of rhetoric, and pragmatist philosophy

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2024

J History Behavioral Science

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Gertrude Buck and collaborators developed a sociologically and pragmatist‐informed approach to language that has been neglected in later scholarship. Buck approached the study of language from the standpoint of pragmatist functional psychology, which is indebted to John Dewey's pragmatism at the University of Michigan, and which views language as a normal, dynamic action of human organisms engaged in necessary cooperative relations with one another. Her approach overcomes the small‐minded pragmatism that would criticize figurative or poetic language as impractical, and instead shows how figuration is essential to the particular ways in which language is action that conveys meaning to others and serves broader social functions. Buck's forgotten work helps overcome criticisms of the application of pragmatic action theory to language and literature, sketching how language structure may be explained on the basis of language as a natural social‐communicative act, how figurative language is inherent in the normal act of communicating situated bodily experiences to others, and how rhetorical speech and writing contributes to participation in democratic social processes. This paper also indicates how Buck's work has been partially rediscovered in Composition Studies, as well as prefigures later reader‐response esthetics and feminist analyses of language.

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Language as social action: Gertrude Buck, the “Michigan School” of rhetoric, and pragmatist philosophy

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