About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780226660608ISBN:0226660605
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing otherwise a fine copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 285 p. Contains: Illustrations. Index. Audience: General/trade. "A consistently engrossing and stimulating book which wears its considerable learning lightly and which is written with exemplary clarity. " read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN-13:9780226660608ISBN:0226660605
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1996-10-01
ISBN-13:9780226660585ISBN:0226660583
Description: New. From the shelves of my store. Light shelf wear. Great book for a reasonable and competitive price. Buy risk free and enjoy. I will ship promptly in a bubble wrap mailer. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780226660608ISBN:0226660605
Description: New. Austere and uncompromising, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had no use for the avant-garde art works of his own time. He refused to formulate an aesthetic, declaring that one can no more define the "beautiful" than determine "what sort of coffee... read more
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