Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein (Rethinking Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810119609 ISBN 13: 9780810119604

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810119609
• ISBN 13: 9780810119604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Dauber Kenneth, Jost Walter