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This book argues that the puzzle of vagueness – language’s unavoidable imprecision – led to transformations in both fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction.  \nmegan quigley is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University. Her work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism, the James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society, Modernism/modernity, and Philosophy and Literature.  \nMODERNIST FICTION AND VAGUENESS  \nPhilosophy, Form, and Language  \nMEGAN QUIGLEY  \nVillanova University  \n32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usa  \nCambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.  \nIt furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.  \n[www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org)  \nInformation on this [title:](title: www.cambridge.org/9781107089594)[ www.cambridge.org/](title: www.cambridge.org/9781107089594)[9781107089594](title: www.cambridge.org/9781107089594)[ ](title: www.cambridge.org/9781107089594)© Megan Quigley 2015  \nThis publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2015  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nA catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Quigley, Megan.  \nModernist fiction and vagueness : philosophy, form, and language / Megan Quigley.  \npages cm  \nIncludes index.  \nisbn 978-1-107-08959-4 (Hardback)  \n1. Modernism (Literature) 2. Fiction–20th century–History and criticism.  \n3. Vagueness (Philosophy) 4. Language and languages in literature. I. Title. pn56 .m54q54 2014  \n8090 .9112–dc23 2014027293  \nisbn 978-1-107-08959-4 Hardback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.  \nYou will no doubt think that, in the words of the poet:“Who speaks of vagueness should himself be vague.”  \n–Bertrand Russell, “Vagueness”  \nContents  \nPreface page ix  \nAcknowledgments xiii  \nIntroduction: Linguistic Turns and Literary Modernism 1  \n1. Modern Novels and Vagueness 1  \n2. “The Impossible Heap” 14  \n1 “The Re-instatement of the Vague”: The James Brothers and Charles S. Peirce 21  \n1. The Art of Vagueness 21  \n2. The Two Pragmatisms and Henry James’s Criticism 26  \n3. “Guess My Riddle”: Watch and Ward 35  \n4. The Vengeance of the “Great Vagueness”: “The Beast in the Jungle” 41  \n5. The Bad Pragmatist: The Sacred Fount’s Narrator 49  \n6. “Vague Values”: Strether’s Dilemma in The Ambassadors 55  \n2 When in December 1910?: Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, and the Question of Vagueness 63  \n1. Mush and the Telescope 63  \n2. Vagueness and Vagabonds in “Craftsmanship” 70  \n3. Night and Day and the “Semi-Transparent Envelope” 80  \n4. Jacob’s Shadow 89  \n5. “I Begin to Doubt the Fixity of Tables”: Solipsism and The Waves 95  \n3 A Dream of International Precision: James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgen","cbCaiit4UrQJUirR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiit4UrQJUirR","pdf",1458119,244,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction: Linguistic Turns and Literary Modernism\n## 1. Modern Novels and Vagueness\n## 2. “The Impossible Heap”\n## When in December 1910?: Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, and the Question of Vagueness\n## 3 A Dream of International Precision: James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and C. K. Ogden\n## 4 Conclusion: To Criticize the Criticism: T. S. Eliot and the Eradication of Vagueness\n## Notes\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What main argument does Modernist Fiction and Vagueness make about vagueness?\",\"answer\":\"Vagueness is presented as language’s unavoidable imprecision that helps define modernist fiction, and it also shaped transformations in early twentieth-century philosophy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect literary modernism to philosophy?\",\"answer\":\"It links developments in literary modernism to changes in philosophical thought, drawing connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature.\"},{\"question\":\"Which authors and philosophers does the book focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The contents highlight James, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and C. K. Ogden, among others, through chapters devoted to their works and ideas.\"}]","Modernist Fiction and Vagueness - Philosophy, Form, and Language | PDF",1789974778,376]