Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Marjorie Perloff

306 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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 Wittge...

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