 | Idling the Engine: Linguistic sSkepticism in and around Cortázar, Kafka, and Joyce Subjects: Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Cortázar Julio -- Criticism and interpretation; Kafka Franz 1883–1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Joyce James 1882–1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Author E. Joseph Sharkey uses the philosophies of language of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Ludwig Wittgenstein to counter the skepticism in question by showing that a language grounded in history instead of the transcendent is grounded nevertheless. |
