6/20/2023 0 Comments Alfred lambert the corrections![]() In this context, I examine the ways in which aspects of contemporary American culture are represented in the novels, and identify their points of contact with this archive of pragmatist and Puritan thinking. Additionally, I establish consonance between pragmatism and earlier Puritan American thinking, and query the ways in which the legacies of Puritan theology and pragmatist philosophy can be regarded as intellectual precedents to the distinctively American concerns and interests of these texts. I examine the ways in which pragmatist ideas operate as intertextual contact points in the four novels under scrutiny. ![]() Peirce, continue to underpin current American thinking. ![]() My aim is to show that as aspects of postmodernist literary criticism and theory have come under suspicion, it has become possible to identify how enduring pragmatist ideas, derived in particular from William James and C.S. Danielewski’s 2000 House of Leaves, and Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 The Corrections. ![]() ![]() The texts are David Foster Wallace’s 1996 Infinite Jest, Neal Stephenson’s 1999 Cryptonomicon, Mark Z. This thesis identifies and interrogates the correspondences between American pragmatist philosophy and four recent American novels produced at a time when postmodernist literary theory is being questioned as a theoretical strategy for analyzing literary fiction. ![]()
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