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Understanding the house edge for roulette players in Australia
A curated bibliography of ordinary language philosophy and narrative theory
Scholars working at the seam between linguistic analysis and literary interpretation have produced an embarrassment of riches over the past seventy years. Yet…
Cavell, James, and the Ordinary Difficulty of Other Minds
Stanley Cavell's reading of Henry James stands as one of the most ambitious attempts to bridge ordinary language philosophy and literary criticism. In works…
Austen's Performative Utterances and the Rhetoric of Political Fiction
Ordinary language philosophy offers critics tools that often sit on shelves, awaiting use. J.L. Austin's distinction between constative and performative…
Ordinary Language Philosophy in Graduate Poetry Seminars
Ordinary language philosophy offers literary scholars a method of attention that begins where many interpretive traditions end: with the words speakers and…
Wittgenstein and the Literary Imagination by Garry L. Hagberg
Garry L. Hagberg’s Wittgenstein and the Literary Imagination brings ordinary language philosophy into sustained conversation with literary studies. Its subject…
The Grammar of Feeling in Wittgenstein and Literary Expression
Wittgenstein’s philosophy offers a distinctive way to think about emotion in literature. Rather than treating feelings as hidden objects inside the mind, he…
Call for submissions on Cavell and film
OLP & Literary Studies Online announces a call for submissions for a special issue on Cavell and film. The project will bring together scholarship on Stanley…
Cavell, The Ordinary, And Digital Humanities
Stanley Cavell’s account of the ordinary offers a valuable way to think about digital humanities. His work asks how philosophical understanding is grounded in…
Wittgenstein and Formalism Reconsidered
Wittgenstein and Formalism: A Reassessment begins with a productive tension. Formalist criticism treats literary works as organised systems whose patterns can…