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Modernist fiction and vagueness : philosophy, form, and language

By Virginia , Eliot , T. S.; James , Henry; Joyce , James; Quigley , Megan; Woolf

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
110708959X, 978-1-107-08959-4, 9781107461154, 1107461154
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1458119 bytes)
Pages
228\244
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1843-1916. Woolf-- 1882-1941. Eliot-- 1882-1941. Joyce-- 1888-1965.HenryIrishJamesModernism (Literature) Fiction -- 20th century --ScottishT. S.VirginiaWelsh. Fiction. James

Description

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 among 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

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