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Author Perloff, Marjorie.

Title Wittgenstein's ladder : poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary / Marjorie Perloff.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  193 W831P    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 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 Resistance/The Resistance of Language -- 5. Border Games: The Wittgenstein Fictions of Thomas Bernhard and Ingeborg Bachmann -- 6. "Running Against the Walls of Our Cage": Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics -- coda: "Writing Through" Wittgenstein with Joseph Kosuth.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-273) and index.
Subject Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Criticism.
ISBN 0226660583 alkaline paper
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