1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789429003321

Autore

Green Keith <1954->

Titolo

Bertrand Russell, language and linguistic theory [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2007

ISBN

1-283-12317-7

9786613123176

1-4411-9749-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in British philosophy

Disciplina

121/.68092

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contexts and connexions -- Language and the world -- Language and the mind -- Language and linguistic theory -- 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' : Russell and modernism.

Sommario/riassunto

Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796664803321

Autore

Howe Jan Niklas

Titolo

Monstrosität : abweichungen in literatur und wissenschaften des 19. jahrhunderts / / Jan Niklas Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-047841-2

3-11-047886-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

WeltLiteraturen =, , 2198-9370 ; ; Band 10 World Literatures

Classificazione

EC 2490

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Literature - History and criticism - 19th century

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Dank -- Inhalt -- 1. Man sieht sie nicht mehr -- 2. Teratologische Folgerungen -- 3. Defiguration, Refiguration: E. T. A. Hoffmann -- 4. Psychiatrische Defiguration -- 5. Der Monolog des Triebs: Edgar Allan Poe -- 6. Perfektion und Caprice -- 7. Deviantes Self-Fashioning: Henry James -- Das Monströse überlebt seine Banalisierung -- Bibliographie -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The study examines the parallel emergence of a new paradigm of deviation in literature and science. From Hoffmann and Poe to Henry James, from medical teratology and early psychiatry to the theory of evolution, the book traces the development of a modern dialectic of the defiguration and refiguration of monstrous forms."--