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Modernist fiction and vagueness : philosophy, form, and language

Title
Modernist fiction and vagueness : philosophy, form, and language / Megan Quigley, Villanova University.
Author
Quigley, Megan
Publication
  • New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Description
1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages)
Summary
"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 fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-218) and index.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781316204924
  • 1316204928
  • 9781316208588
  • 1316208583
  • 9781316105597
  • 1316105598
OCLC
900943985
Author
Quigley, Megan, author.
Title
Modernist fiction and vagueness : philosophy, form, and language / Megan Quigley, Villanova University.
Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-218) and index.
Note
Description based on print version record.
Connect to:
Cambridge Books Online
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Print version: Quigley, Megan. Modernist fiction and vagueness 9781107089594 (DLC) 2014027293 (OCoLC)889736783
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