عنوان

Modernist fiction and vagueness :

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110708959X

(Number (ISBN

9781107089594

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Title Proper

Modernist fiction and vagueness :

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[Book]

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philosophy, form, and language /

First Statement of Responsibility

Megan Quigley.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 228 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: 1. The art of vagueness; 2. The two pragmatisms and Henry James's criticism; 3. 'Guess my riddle': Watch and Ward; 4. The vengeance of the 'great vagueness': 'The Beast in the Jungle'; 5. The bad pragmatist: The Sacred Fount's narrator; 6. 'Vague values': Strether's dilemma in The Ambassadors; 7. Mush and the telescope; 8. Vagueness and vagabonds in 'Craftsmanship'; 9. Night and Day and the 'semi-transparent envelope'; 10. Jacob's shadow; 11. 'I begin to doubt the fixity of tables': solipsism and The Waves; 12. 'The study of languages': logical versus natural languages; 13. Wittgenstein the poet and Joyce the 'philosophist'; 14. Learning vague language: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 15. Throwing away the ladder, losing the keys: Siopold and Boom in Ulysses; 16. Blasphemy and nonsense: Finnegans Wake in Basic; 17. Eliot's critical influence; 18. Eliot and Russell: 'wobbliness' and 'the scientific paradise'; 19. 'Fuzzy studies' and fuzzy fictions.

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Fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Language and languages in literature.

Modernism (Literature)

Vagueness (Philosophy)

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Quigley, Megan

Date of Transaction

20150312120025.0

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