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Wittgenstein and modernist fiction : the language of acknowledgment /
"Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how early twentieth-century economic and social upheaval prompted new ways of conceptualizing the purposes and powers of language. Scholars have long held that formally experimental novels written in the early twentieth c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Anthem studies in Wittgenstein.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how early twentieth-century economic and social upheaval prompted new ways of conceptualizing the purposes and powers of language. Scholars have long held that formally experimental novels written in the early twentieth century reflect how the period's material crises--from world wars to the spread of industrial capitalism--call into question the capacity of language to picture the world accurately. This book argues that this standard scholarly narrative tells only a partial story. Even as signal modernist works by Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and others move away from a view of language as a means of gaining knowledge, they also underscore its capacity to grant acknowledgment. They show how language might matter less as a medium for representing reality than as a tool for recognizing others."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781839980640 1839980648 |