Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language

ISBN-13: 9781107461154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 242 str.

Megan Quigley

Opis

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy.

Recenzje

'… one of the most fantastic implications of Quigley's book is that not only were early twentieth-century philosophers and writers involved in a much profounder dialogue than our intellectual histories typically admit, but that in many ways the period's philosophies of formal precision and language-based objectivity needed to be inflected through modernist art … Given the brood and convincing array of evidence Quigley amasses to prove this point, perhaps the greatest question left by Modernist Fiction and Vagueness is why few people have written anything like it before now.' Jeffrey Blevins, MAKE Literary Magazine (makemag.com)

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: linguistic turns and literary modernism; 1. 'The Re-instatement of the Vague': the James Brothers and Charles S. Peirce; 2. When in December 1910?: Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, and the question of vagueness; 3. A dream of international precision: James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and C. K. Ogden; 4. Conclusion. To criticize the criticism: T. S. Eliot and the eradication of vagueness; Notes; Index.