Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction - The Language of Acknowledgment

Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language's capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Modernist Philosophy and Modernist Fiction; 1. "Who's 'We'?": Claims to Community in Forster's Howards End and Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway; 2. "The Silent Soliloquy of Others": Wittgenstein's Pursuit of Acknowledgment; 3. "To See with the Same Eyes": Marriage and Same- Sex Intimacy in Ford, Woolf, and Larsen; 4. Fragmenting Families, Private Language Fantasies: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying; 5. Seeing Humans as Humans: Wright's Black Boy and Ellison's Invisible Man; Conclusion: Afterlives of Acknowledgment; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Greg Chase holds a PhD in English and American Literature from Boston University and teaches at the College of the Holy Cross. 

Product details

• Authors: Greg Chase
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781839980633
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-063-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology