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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2022.
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Collection: | Anthem studies in Wittgenstein.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.