Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein

Book Overview

Marking a return of literary study from the remote reaches of abstraction to the realm of the immediate, the particular, and the real in which language and literature truly live, the essays in this volume articulate a productive, new critical approach: ordinary language criticism. With roots in the ordinary language philosophy derived especially from Wittgenstein in the early twentieth century, and in the ideas of American pragmatic philosophy propounded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810119609
• ISBN13: 9780810119604
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.9"