Ordinary language criticism : literary thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein / edited by Kenneth Dauber and Walter Jost ; with an afterword by Stanley Cavell.

Other author Dauber, Kenneth, 1945-
Other author Jost, Walter, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoEvanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxxii, 353 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Contenthttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/nwern031/2002152188.html
Subjects

SeriesRethinking theory
Rethinking theory. ^A323021
Contents Introduction: the varieties of ordinary language criticism / Kenneth Dauber and Walter Jost -- Wittgenstein's philosophizing and literary theorizing / Austin E. Quigley -- Stanley Cavell's redemptive reading: a philosophical labor in progress / Edward Duffy -- The window: knowledge of other minds in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Ordinary language brought to grief: Robert Frost's "Home burial" / Walter Jost -- Reading, writing, re-membering: what Cavell and Heidegger call thinking / Steven Mulhall -- The grammar of telling: the example of Don Quixote / Anthony J. Cascardi -- The shadow of a magnitude: quotation as canonicity in Proust and Beckett / William Flesch -- The self, reflected: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the autobiographical situation / Gary L. Hagberg -- Cavell's imperfect perfectionism / Charles Altieri -- The poetics of description: Wittgenstein on the aesthetic / Marjorie Perloff -- In which Henry James strikes bedrock / R.M. Berry -- "The accomplishment of inhabitation": Danto, Cavell, and the argument of American poetry / Gerald L. Bruns -- Cavell and Hölderlin on human immigrancy / Richard Eldridge -- Moonstruck, or, How to ruin everything / William Day -- Beginning at the beginning in Genesis / Kenneth Dauber -- Afterword / Stanley Cavell.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002152188
ISBN0810119579 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810119609 (paper : alk. paper)