| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
"Indigestible residues": Ludwig Wittgenstein, aesthetic negativism, and the incompleteness of logical positivism -- "Negative appearance": Flannery O'Connor, the fact/value problem, and the threat of logical positivism -- "Contradictory feelings": John Barth, non-mystical value-thinking, and the exhaustion of logical positivism -- "Eternal things": Saul Bellow, the infinite longings of the soul, and the shortcomings of logical positivism -- "Illogical negativism": Thomas Pynchon, the critique of modernism, and the erasure of logical positivism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'Fictions of Fact and Value' argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945 in what amounts to a constitutive encounter between literature and philosophy at mid-century: after the end of the modernism, as it was traditionally conceived, but prior to the rise of postmodernism, as it came to be known. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Positivism in literature.
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Positivism in literature. |
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Logical positivism -- History.
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Logical positivism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: LeMahieu, Michael. Fictions of fact and value 9780199890408 (DLC) 2013006145 (OCoLC)833145359 |
| ISBN |
9780199890415 (electronic book) |
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0199890412 (electronic book) |
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9780199369652 (ebook) |
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0199369658 (ebook) |
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9780199890408 |
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0199890404 |
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