Megan Quigley

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781107089594
• ISBN-10: 110708959X
• Artikelnr.: 41611736

Autorenporträt

Megan Quigley is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism, Modernism/modernity, Philosophy and Literature, and the James Joyce Quarterly. Quigley won a Harry Ransom Center Fellowship to the University of Texas, Austin (2011-12), and in 2013, she was a Fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena.

Inhaltsangabe

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.