id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2r36tx3482f Aleksandra Hernandez Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature 1904 .txt text/plain 179 4 16 Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature, tracks experience-based forms of mimesis in the writing of Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. From Melville's depiction of machine-mediated modes of perception in European navigational practices, to Hurston's pragmatist epistemology in which her subjective, participatory engagement with Haitian and Jamaican culture is a source of narrative authority and objectivity, Patterns of Experience suggests that how we think is not a transparent process in which ideas get transferred directly from world to body to mind. cache/2r36tx3482f.txt txt/2r36tx3482f.txt