Fictions of fact and value : the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975 /

'Fictions of Fact and Value' argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945 in what amounts to a constitutive encounter between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: LeMahieu, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Positivism in literature.
Logical positivism > History.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Positivisme dans la littérature.
Positivisme logique > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Logical positivism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Indigestible residues": Ludwig Wittgenstein, aesthetic negativism, and the incompleteness of logical positivism
  • "Negative appearance": Flannery O'Connor, the fact/value problem, and the threat of logical positivism
  • "Contradictory feelings": John Barth, non-mystical value-thinking, and the exhaustion of logical positivism
  • "Eternal things": Saul Bellow, the infinite longings of the soul, and the shortcomings of logical positivism
  • "Illogical negativism": Thomas Pynchon, the critique of modernism, and the erasure of logical positivism.

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