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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Law, Andrew D. "Chance and Necessity: Reengaging John A. Kouwenhoven and Tradition-oriented Criticism," Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota, December 1997.
This dissertation critically reengages John A. Kouwenhoven’s cultural criticism by exploring its intellectual roots in the tradition-oriented perspectives of Van Wyck Brooks, Constance Rourke, and Bernard Devoto. It argues that Kouwenhoven extended those perspectives in significant new directions by yoking a “vernacular” understanding of the rise of industrialism in the United States to Karl Polanyi’s Christian democratic critique of 19th century market economics. More specifically, it contends that Kouwenhoven offers a valuable critique of “systematic” interpretations of American experience by holding the particulars of vernacular cultural history in constant dialectical tension with the theoretical generalizations attendant to critical practice .
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