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008			150129s2015 nyu o 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781316204924 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPN56 _b.M634 2015
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aQuigley, Megan. _e1
245	1	0	_aModernist fiction and vagueness : _bphilosophy, form, and language / _cMegan Quigley.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource.
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520	0		_a"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 between 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aMachine 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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650		0	_aModernism (Literature)
650		0	_aFiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aVagueness (Philosophy)
650		0	_aLanguage and languages in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell