Wittgenstein's ladder : poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary / Marjorie Perloff.
Wittgenstein's ladder : poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary / Marjorie Perloff.
Wittgenstein's ladder : poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary / Marjorie Perloff.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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1996.
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N809.04/55
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xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Abbreviations for Works by Wittgenstein -- 1. The Making of the Tractatus: Russell, Wittgenstein, and the "Logic" of War -- 2. The "Synopsis of Trivialities": The Art of the Philosophical Investigations -- 3. "Grammar in Use": Wittgenstein/Gertrude Stein/Marinetti -- 4. Witt-Watt: The Language of Re...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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Illinois
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1996.
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Wittgenstein's ladder is an apt figure for this radical aesthetic, and not just in its ordinariness as an object. The movement "up" this ladder can never be more than what Wittgenstein's contemporary, Gertrude Stein, called "Beginning again and again." Wittgenstein shows us, too, that we cannot climb the same ladder twice: the use of language, the...
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Wittgenstein's ladder : poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary / Marjorie Perloff.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-273) and index.
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0226660583 (alk. paper)
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809.04
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