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The literary Wittgenstein

Author: John Gibson; Wolfgang Huemer
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Applying the approach of Wittgenstein to core areas of literary theory, including poetry, deconstruction, the ethical value of literature and the nature and logic of fictional discourse, this volume brings together 21 articles by prominent figures in thefield.
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Named Person: Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ludwig Wittgenstein
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Gibson; Wolfgang Huemer
ISBN: 0415289726 9780415289726 0415289734 9780415289733 9780203505236 0203505239
OCLC Number: 53138483
Description: xi, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Wittgenstein, language, philosophy of literature / Wolfgang Huemer --
Philosophy as a kind of literature/Literature as a kind of philosophy. Introductory note to "The Investigations' everyday aesthetics of itself" / Stanley Cavell --
The Investigations' everyday aesthetics of itself / Stanley Cavell --
"But isn't the same at least the same?" : Wittgenstein and the question of poetic translatability / Marjorie Perloff --
Wittgenstein's "imperfect garden" : the ladders and labyrinths of philosophy as Dichtung / David Schalkwyk --
Restlessness and the achievement of peace : writing and method in Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations / Timothy Gould --
Imagined worlds and the real one : Plato, Wittgenstein, and mimesis / Bernard Harrison --
Reading for life / John Gibson --
Reading with Wittgenstein. Introduction to "Having a rough story about what moral philosophy is" / Cora Diamond --
Having a rough story about what moral philosophy is / Cora Diamond --
"The life of the sign" : Wittgenstein on reading a person / Joachim Schulte --
Wittgenstein against interpretation : "the meaning of a text does not stop short of its facts" / Sonia Sedivy --
On the old saw, "every reading of a text is an interpretation" : some remarks / Martin Stone --
Literature and the boundaries of self and sense. Rotating the axis of our investigation : Wittgenstein's investigations and Hölderlin's poetology / Richard Eldridge --
Autobiographical consciousness : Wittgenstein, private experience, and the "inner picture" / Garry L. Hagberg --
Monologic and dialogic : Wittgenstein, Heart of darkness, and linguistic skepticism / James Guetti --
Wittgenstein and Faulkner's Benjy : reflections on and of derangement / Rupert Read --
Fiction and the Tractatus. Facts and fiction : reflections on the Tractatus / Alex Burri --
Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the logic of fiction / Dale Jacquette --
The larger view. Unlikely prospects for applying Wittgenstein's "method" to aesthetics and the philosophy of art / Joseph Margolis.
Responsibility: edited by John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer.
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Applying the approach of Wittgenstein to core areas of literary theory, including poetry, deconstruction, the ethical value of literature and the nature and logic of fictional discourse, this volume brings together 21 articles by prominent figures in thefield.

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