Literature and the Touch of the Real |
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| Author:
| Schalkwyk, David |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61149-215-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $108.00 |
Book Description:
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Literature and The Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language, or the essential divorce of language from the real. It offers a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics; a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida; and an account of Ludwig Wittgenstein's concepts of 'grammar,' 'criteria,' 'aspect perception,' and 'language-games.'
Literature and The Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language, or the essential divorce of language from the real. It offers a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics; a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida; and an account of Ludwig Wittgenstein's concepts of 'grammar,' 'criteria,' 'aspect perception,' and 'language-games.'