Wittgenstein and Literary Studies
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Editors:
- Robert Chodat, Boston University
- John Gibson, University of Louisville, Kentucky
- Date Published: February 2023
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108833219
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Wittgenstein is often regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, and in recent decades, his work has begun to play a prominent role in literary studies, particularly in debates over language, interpretation, and critical judgment. Wittgenstein and Literary Studies solidifies this critical movement, assembling recent critics and philosophers who understand Wittgenstein as a counterweight to longstanding tendencies in both literary studies and philosophical aesthetics. The essays here cover a wide range of topics. Why have contemporary writers been so drawn to Wittgenstein? What is a Wittgensteinian response to New Historicism, Post-Critique, and other major critical movements? How does Wittgenstein help us understand the nature of style, fiction, poetry, and the link between ethics and aesthetics? As the volume makes clear, Wittgenstein's work provides a rare bridge between professional philosophy and literary studies, offering us a way out of entrenched positions and their denials-what Wittgenstein himself called 'pictures' 'that held us captive.'
Read more- Introduces readers to a Wittgensteinian perspective on a range of themes, and allows them to grasp both the unity and flexibility of Wittgensteinian thinking about aesthetics
- Chapters are written by both philosophers and literary scholars. Every chapter includes sustained discussions of both academic fields
- The volume covers a wide range of literary topics, and is not restricted to specific authors or periods
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'For anyone interested in Wittgenstein's value to the study of literature, this volume should be essential reading.' Michael Fischer, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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- Date Published: February 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108833219
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction Robert Chodat and John Gibson
1. Writing after Wittgenstein Michael LeMahieu
2. A Wittgensteinian phenomenology of criticism Toril Moi
3. Appreciating material: criticism, science, and the very idea of method Robert Chodat
4. A vision of language for literary historians: forms of life, context, use Sarah Beckwith
5. Wittgenstein and the prospects for a contemporary literary humanism Espen Hammer
6. Storied thoughts: Wittgenstein and the reaches of fiction Magdalena Ostas
7. Wittgenstein and lyric Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
8. Life, logic, style: on late Wittgenstein Henry Pickford
9. Wittgenstein's apocalyptic subjectivity Benjamin Ware.
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