Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the OrdinaryUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - 285 pages 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 |
Table des matières
F T Marinetti After the Marne Joffre Visited the Front in an Automo bile 1915 | 97 |
F T Marinetti from Zang Tumb Tuuum 1914 | 102 |
Gino Severini in Paris 1912 | 104 |
The Language of ResistanceThe Resistance | 115 |
The Wittgenstein Fictions of Thomas | 145 |
coda | 181 |
Bobbie Creeley Untitled photograph | 193 |
Bobbie Creeley Untitled photograph | 194 |
Alfred Loos Villa Moller 192728 Street elevation ALA | 228 |
IO Fortlaan | 230 |
Fortlaan 1992 | 231 |
Fortlaan | 232 |
Fortlaan 1992 | 233 |
Koepoortkaai | 236 |
Koepoortkaai 1992 | 237 |
Veldstraat | 238 |
Paul Engelmann design for the Palais Stonborough phase | 225 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein Kundmanngasse Photograph by Moritz Nähr | 226 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein Kundmanngasse south perspective present situation Photograph by Marghareta Krischanitz | 227 |
Veldstraat 1992 | 239 |
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