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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chase, Greg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Anthem Press, 2022.
Series:Anthem studies in Wittgenstein.
Subjects:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951 > Influence.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature)
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Fiction
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature > Philosophy
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Modernist philosophy and modernist fiction
  • 1. "Who's 'we'?" : Claims to community in Forster's Howards End and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
  • 2. "The silent soliloquy of others" : Wittgenstein's pursuit of acknowledgment
  • 3. "To see with the same eyes" : Marriage and same-sex intimacy in Ford, Woolf, and Larsen
  • 4. Fragmenting families, private language fantasies : Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying
  • 5. Seeing humans as humans : Wright's Black Boy and Ellison's Invisible Man
  • Conclusion : Afterlives of acknowledgment.

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