Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975.
Language: English
Published by Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press,, 2013
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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.x, 244 pp. [ISBN: 978-0199890408] Hardbound in dustwrapper. As NEW.
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- Title
- Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975.
- Author
- LEMAHIEU, MICHAEL.
- Publisher
- Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press,
- Publication year
- 2013
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- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0199890404
- ISBN 13
- 9780199890408
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- American Literature
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