Modernist Fiction and Vagueness - Philosophy, Form, and Language

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Quigley, Megan (Villanova University Quigley, Quigley Megan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2018
• EAN: 9781107461154
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46115-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1900 - C 1914, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -