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- catalog abstract "Postmodern critics fail to ask the truth-seeker's essential question, What does the evidence prove? Instead they trust the generalizations and slogans of ideologies to guide their interpretations. Attempting to be up-to-date and profound, these critics lose sight of the literature they are supposed to explore. The Truth of Uncertainty celebrates values commonly associated with modern, not postmodern, criticism, applying them to contemporary works in a series of fresh and unusual inquiries. Galligan finds important implications for criticism in work from the physical sciences that are rarely touched on by American intellectuals, such as Gerald M. Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind and Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. Likewise, he finds illumination in the works of novelists that American critics have largely ignored - Josef Skvorecky, George V. Higgins, Mary Lee Settle, Robertson Davies.".
- catalog contributor b10867194.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "1. "Smile When You Say That, Pardner" -- 2. The Matter of the Mind -- 3. Comforting Falsehoods, Inconvenient Truths -- 4. "Tell Me a Story, Daddy" -- 5. In Praise of Translations -- 6. Thinking Uncertainly -- 7. The Dimension of the Past -- 8. Canons, Private and Public.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.".
- catalog description "Postmodern critics fail to ask the truth-seeker's essential question, What does the evidence prove? Instead they trust the generalizations and slogans of ideologies to guide their interpretations. Attempting to be up-to-date and profound, these critics lose sight of the literature they are supposed to explore.".
- catalog description "The Truth of Uncertainty celebrates values commonly associated with modern, not postmodern, criticism, applying them to contemporary works in a series of fresh and unusual inquiries. Galligan finds important implications for criticism in work from the physical sciences that are rarely touched on by American intellectuals, such as Gerald M. Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind and Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. Likewise, he finds illumination in the works of novelists that American critics have largely ignored - Josef Skvorecky, George V. Higgins, Mary Lee Settle, Robertson Davies.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 188 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Truth of uncertainty.".
- catalog identifier "0826211925 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Truth of uncertainty.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Truth of uncertainty.".
- catalog subject "801/.95 21".
- catalog subject "Criticism (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "PN81 .G24 1998".
- catalog subject "Uncertainty in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. "Smile When You Say That, Pardner" -- 2. The Matter of the Mind -- 3. Comforting Falsehoods, Inconvenient Truths -- 4. "Tell Me a Story, Daddy" -- 5. In Praise of Translations -- 6. Thinking Uncertainly -- 7. The Dimension of the Past -- 8. Canons, Private and Public.".
- catalog title "The truth of uncertainty : beyond ideology in science and literature / Edward L. Galligan.".
- catalog type "text".