Modernist Fiction and Vagueness : Philosophy, Form, and Language (Hardcover)

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: linguistic turns and literary modernism; 1. 'The Re-instatement of the Vague': the James Brothers and Charles S. Peirce; 2. When in December 1910?: Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, and the question of vagueness; 3. A dream of international precision: James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and C. K. Ogden; 4. Conclusion. To criticize the criticism: T. S. Eliot and the eradication of vagueness; Notes; Index.