Literature and its language : philosophical aspects /: philosophical aspects. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Garry Hagberg.
• Editors: Hagberg, Garry, 1952-
• Contents: Introduction: Words at Work, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part I. Wittgenstein, Austin: Meaning and Literary Performatives.- 1. 'I am, forsooth, a layman!' Flann O'Brien, Wittgenstein, and the Challenge of Ordinary Language, Andrew Gaedtke.- 2. The Poetics of the Unpoetic: Literature, Ordinariness, and Raymond Carver's Minimalist Realism, Daniel Just.- 3. Bunbury Could Not Live, That Is What I Mean: Austin's Performative Speech and Truth in the Case of Oscar Wilde, Luke Mueller.- 4. Contending with the Storm: Lear's Performatives, Julian Lamb.- Part II. The Case of Samuel Beckett.- 5. 'Now I can go on!': The Collapse of Linguistic Authority in Beckett's Endgame, Greg Chase.- 6. Post-Apocalyptic Leftover: The Void of Language in Beckett's Murphy ‌and Endgame, Masoud Farahmandfar.- 7. Selves Lost and Regained: Retrospective vs. Prospective Quests for Identity in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Ivan Nyusztay.- Part III. The Meanings of Words: Defining by Showing.- 8. 'What is this world?': Chaucer, Realism, and Metaphysics, Darragh Greene.- 9. Consenting as an Ethical Act: On the Meaning of a Word, Robert B. Pierce.- 10. Fooling: Material Meaning-Making under Conditions of Epistemic Injustice, Hannah Walser.- 11. A State of Mind as the Meaning of a Word: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part IV: Evocative and Uncanny Phrases.- 12. Rehearsing the Unexpected: Poetry and Rhythm in the (New) Age of the Poets, Ruth Parkin-Gounelas.- 13. A Window. A Word. An Inkling, Gordon C.F. Bearn.- 14. On Wittgenstein, Lydia Davis, and Other Uncanny Grammarians, Ben Roth.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 801; Literature -- Philosophy; Language and languages -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031123306
• Related ISBNs: 9783031123290
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.