TY - BOOK ID - 78142046 TI - Wittgenstein's Ladder PY - 2012 SN - 0226924866 9780226924861 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Criticism. KW - Criticism KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - Literature and philosophy KW - Philosophy and literature KW - Philosophy. KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - Theory KW - Wittgenstein, Ludwig, KW - Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, KW - Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, KW - Wittgenstein, L. KW - Vitgenshteĭn, L., KW - Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, KW - Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, KW - Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, KW - Weitegenshitan, KW - Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, KW - Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, KW - ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג KW - 维特根斯坦, KW - Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, KW - ordinary language, philosophy, modernism, poetry, gertrude stein, tractatus, repetition, thomas bernhard, philosophical investigations, notes on logic, ingeborg bachmann, avant garde, german poets, god, the self, mystical, mundane, classics, literary criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142046 AB - Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal. "This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.-Linda Munk, American Literature "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry."-Linda Voris, Boston Review "Wittgenstein's Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds."-David Clippinger, Chicago Review "Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic. . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original."-Willard Bohn, Sub-Stance ER -