Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary / Marjorie Perloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perloff, Marjorie, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal. "This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.-Linda Munk, American Literature "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry."-Linda Voris, Boston Review "Wittgenstein's Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds."-David Clippinger, Chicago Review "Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic. . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original."-Willard Bohn, Sub-Stance

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations for Works by Wittgenstein

Preface

Introduction

One. The Making of the Traaatus: Russell, Wittgenstein and the "Logic" of War

Two. The "Synopsis of Trivialities": The Art o(the Philosophical Investigations

Three. "Grammar in Use": Wittgenstein!Gertrude Stein! Marinetti

Four. Witt-Watt: The Language of Resistance! The Resistance of Language

Five. Border Games: The Wittgenstein Fictions of Thomas Bernhard and Ingeborg Bachmann

Six. "Running Against the Walls of Our Cage": Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics

Coda. "Writing Through" Wittgenstein with Joseph Kosuth

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226924861

0226924866

OCLC:

855504089