Fictions of fact and value the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975 LeMahieu, Michael creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History nyu 2014 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) '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. "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. specialized Michael LeMahieu. Includes bibliographical references and index. American fiction 20th century History and criticism Positivism in literature Logical positivism History Roman américain 20e siècle Histoire et critique Positivisme dans la littérature Positivisme logique Histoire American fiction Logical positivism Positivism in literature 1900-1999 fast PS379 .L44 2014 813.5409 9780199369652 0199369658 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/7293 U3W 131104 20260319161334.3 in00005712452 eng