Ordinary Language Criticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1957-4
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Rethinking Theory

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.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - The Varieties Of Ordinary Language Criticism, Kenneth Dauber And Walter Jost; Wittgenstein's Philosophizing And Literary Theorizing, Austin E. Quigley; Stanley Cavell's Redemptive Reading - A Philosophical Labor In Progress, Edward Duffy; The Window - Knowledge Of Other Minds In Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"", Martha C. Nussbaum; Ordinary Language Brought To Grief - ""Home Burial"", Walter Jost; Reading, Writing, Remembering - What Cavell And Heidegger Call Thinking, Stephen Mulhall; The Grammar Of Telling - The Example Of ""Don Quixote"", A.J. Cascardi; The Shadow Of A Magnitude - Quotation As Canonicity In Proust And Beckett, William Flesch; The Self, Reflected - Wittgenstein, Cavell, And The Autobiographical Situation, Garry L. Hagberg; Cavell's Imperfect Perfectionism, Charles Altieri; The Poetics Of Description - Wittgenstein On The Aesthetic, Marjorie Perloff; In Which Henry James Strikes Bedrock, Ralph M. Berry; ""The Accomplishment Of Inhabitation"" - Danto, Cavell, And The Argument Of American Poetry, Gerald L. Bruns. (Part Contents).

Über Autor(innen)

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.