Fictions of fact and value: the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975

"Indigestible residues": Ludwig Wittgenstein, aesthetic negativism, and the incompleteness of logical positivism

"Negative appearance": Flannery O'Connor, the fact/value problem, and the threat of logical positivism

"Contradictory feelings": John Barth, non-mystical value-thinking, and the exhaustion of logical positivism

"Eternal things": Saul Bellow, the infinite longings of the soul, and the shortcomings of logical positivism

"Illogical negativism": Thomas Pynchon, the critique of modernism, and the erasure of logical positivism.