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Modernist figures and James's pluralistic universeIn David Howell Evans (ed.), Understanding James, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury. 2017.
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6The Practical Muse: Pragmatist Poetics in Hulme, Pound, and StevensBucknell University Press. 1997.Patricia Rae's study, while accepting Rorty's view that there is philosophical solidarity between pragmatism and modernism, rejects his interpretation of both as forms of dogmatic skepticism. If pragmatism and modernism coincide, Rae argues, the case of these three writers suggests that the intersection lies not in a rejection of "truthfulness to experience" but in a cautious respect for it.