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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1978 - 9/30/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

The Impact of Positivist Thought on Literary Theory and Criticism, ca. 1830-1930

FAIN: FT-13743-78

Peter A. Dale
Regents of the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA 95618-6153)

To study the influence of positivism (the conviction that philosophy provides us with no knowledge of a reality transcending the world of science and common sense) on the concept of literature and on aesthetical thought.