Modernist fiction and vagueness : philosophy, form, and language /

"Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy. This book argues that the problem of vagueness - language's unavoidable imprecision - led to transformations in both fictio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quigley, Megan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature)
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Vagueness (Philosophy)
Language and languages in literature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Vague (Philosophie)
Langage et langues dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Fiction
Language and languages in literature
Literatur
Sprachphilosophie
Vagheit
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Linguistic turns and literary modernism
  • "The Re-instatement of the vague": The James Brothers and Charles S. Peirce
  • When in December 1910?: Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, and the question of vagueness
  • A dream of international precision: James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and C.K. Ogden
  • Conclusion: To criticize the criticism: T.S. Eliot and the eradication of vagueness.

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