Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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