Megan Quigley's Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and PDF

By Megan Quigley

ISBN-10: 110708959X

ISBN-13: 9781107089594

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the inventive and philosophical models of vagueness, linking the advance of literary modernism to alterations in philosophy. This e-book argues that the matter of vagueness - language's unavoidable imprecision - ended in adjustments in either fiction and philosophy within the early 20th century. either twentieth-century philosophers and their literary opposite numbers (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) have been interested by the vagueness of phrases and the dream of constructing a superbly certain language. development on contemporary curiosity within the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and smooth literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness might be learn now not as a creative challenge yet as a defining caliber of modernist fiction.

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