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Ordinary Language Criticism : Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein
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Hardcover. What is ordinary language criticism? In a series of essays on texts and figures ranging from Genesis to Don Quixote to Proust, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, and Robert Frost, this work sets out to recover "ordinariness" as the overlooked point of departure and return in literary studies. Editor(s): Dauber, Kenneth; Jost, Mr. Walter. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
What is ordinary language criticism? In a series of essays on texts and figures ranging from Genesis to Don Quixote to Proust, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, and Robert Frost, this work sets out to recover ""ordinariness"" as the overlooked point of departure and return in literary studies and to point up the various aesthetic, ethical, and even metaphysical consequences that follow from that recovery. Topics include the practice of reading, the autobiographical situation in literature and philosophy, the sense of a beginning, knowledge of other minds, and the conditions of ""habitation"" in the work of Cavell and Wittgenstein.
What is ordinary language criticism? In a series of essays on texts and figures ranging from Genesis to Don Quixote to Proust, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, and Robert Frost, this work sets out to recover ""ordinariness"" as the overlooked point of departure and return in literary studies and to point up the various aesthetic, ethical, and even metaphysical consequences that follow from that recovery. Topics include the practice of reading, the autobiographical situation in literature and philosophy, the sense of a beginning, knowledge of other minds, and the conditions of ""habitation"" in the work of Cavell and Wittgenstein.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810119574
SKU
V9780810119574
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KENNETH DAUBER is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of The Idea of Authorship in America (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990). WALTER JOST is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has recently completed a book entitled Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism.
Reviews for Ordinary Language Criticism : Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein
Revolutionary change creates exiles, new qualifications for advancement, new forms of address, new silences. Ordinary language criticism is invoked by the editors as an avenue of liberation from what were felt to be, let's say, conformities to system, ones having the effect of a kind of inhibition... of reading, as though what was felt to be a fetishized response to ... Read more