Modernist poetry often makes uncertainty feel structural rather than accidental. A pronoun loses its stable reference, a familiar phrase turns strange, or…
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A Wittgensteinian Reading of Ambiguity in Modernist Poetry
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For Australian players, fast casino withdrawals often begin with the payment method rather than the game itself. PayID is familiar across the local banking…
Report: ordinary language philosophy and the ethics of reading
The Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Ethics of Reading conference brought literary critics, philosophers and postgraduate readers together at the…
Austin’s Phonetic, Phatic and Rhetic Distinction in Prosody
In his 1962 lectures, published as How to Do Things with Words, J. L. Austin draws apart three dimensions of an utterance. The distinction is usually recalled…
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Roulette is built around a clear relationship between the type of wager, its probability, and the amount paid when it wins. A single-number selection offers…
Teaching Wittgenstein’s Lectures on Aesthetics in the Workshop
Wittgenstein’s Lectures on Aesthetics offers creative writing teachers a rigorous way to examine how literary judgements work in practice. Rather than treating…
Cavell’s skeptical recourse in the novels of J. M. Coetzee
Stanley Cavell’s phrase “skeptical recourse” names a philosophical method that begins where certainty falters. Rather than dismiss ordinary language as…
Call for papers: ordinary language philosophy and the lyric essay
This call invites submissions to an interdisciplinary symposium and special issue on ordinary language philosophy and the lyric essay. It brings analytic…
Grammar and the autobiographical first person
The Grammar of “I” in Autobiographical Writing: A Wittgensteinian Approach names a problem joining philosophy of language to literary interpretation: how does…
Stanley Cavell and the Arts: A Critical Review
David LaRocca’s Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Literature, Music, and Painting is a demanding but rewarding contribution to ordinary language philosophy and…