Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975
- ISBN-10
- 0199890404
- ISBN-13
- 9780199890408
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Michael LeMahieu
Description
Fictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American fiction, charting a literary and philosophical genealogy that has been absent from criticism on the American novel since 1945.
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