Michael Lemahieu

Fictions of Fact and Value

The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975

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Produktbeschreibung

Fictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American fiction, charting a literary and philosophical genealogy that has been absent from criticism on the American novel since 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199890408
• ISBN-10: 0199890404
• Artikelnr.: 38076864

Autorenporträt

Michael LeMahieu is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* "Postwar Fiction, the Fact/Value Problem, and the Literary Response
to Logical Positivism"
* Chapter One
* "Indigestible Residues"
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Aesthetic Negativism, and the Incompleteness of
Logical Positivism
* Chapter Two
* "Negative Appearance"
* Flannery O'Connor, the Fact/Value Problem, and the Threat of Logical
Positivism
* Chapter Three
* "Contradictory Feelings"
* John Barth, Non-Mystical Value-Thinking, and the Exhaustion of
Logical Positivism
* Chapter Four
* "Eternal Things"
* Saul Bellow, the Infinite Longings of the Soul, and the Shortcomings
of Logical Positivism
* Chapter Five
* "Illogical Negativism"
* Thomas Pynchon, the Critique of Modernism, and the Erasure of Logical
Positivism