| Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language Contributor(s): Quigley, Megan (Author) |
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ISBN: 110708959X ISBN-13: 9781107089594 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 809.3 |
| LCCN: 2014027293 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Quigley, Megan: - 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. |