Fictions of fact and value : the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	LeMahieu, Michael
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Positivism in literature. Logical positivism > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.