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ISBN 0226660583, 9780226660585

Citation:

Perloff, Marjorie. Wittgenstein’s ladder: poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Contents:

Preface
Introduction (1-24 [html])
1. The Making of the Tractatus: Russell, Wittgenstein, and the “Logic” of War (25-50)
2. The “Synopsis of Trivialities”: The Art of the Philosophical Investigations (51-82)
3. “Grammar in Use”: Wittgenstein/Gertrude Stein/Marinetti (83-114)
4. Witt-Watt: The Language of Resistance/The Resistance of Language (115-144)
5. Border Games: The Wittgenstein Fictions of Thomas Bernhard and Ingeborg Bachmann (145-180)
6. “Running Against the Walls of Our Cage”: Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics (181-220)

Coda: “Writing Through” Wittgenstein with Joseph Kosuth (221-242)
Notes (243-274)
Index (275)

Reviews:

• Perloff in the Nineties by David Zauhar, EBR 9, Spring 1999.
• Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Linda Voss, Boston Review, Oct/Nov. 1997.
• A review of Wittgenstein’s Ladder Carlin Romano, Phildelphia Inquirer, Nov. 24, 1996, Q3.

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