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Symposium Announcement: Ordinary Language and Dramatic Dialogue
What Austin’s Excuses Framework Reveals About Literary Character
J. L. Austin’s account of excuses offers a precise way to examine how people explain conduct without reducing character to a fixed set of virtues and faults.…
Reading Literature After the Ordinary
Toril Moi’s Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein offers a forceful account of what literary criticism can become when it attends…
Resource Guide: Key Articles on Cavell and Shakespeare
Stanley Cavell’s writing on Shakespeare brings ordinary language philosophy into contact with questions of scepticism, knowledge, recognition, intimacy, and…
CFP: Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Contemporary Novel
This call for papers invites contributions on the relationship between ordinary language philosophy and the contemporary novel. It welcomes work that considers…
Austin, French Theory, And The Literary Uses Of Language
J. L. Austin’s account of speech acts changed how scholars could describe language as a form of action. An utterance may report an event, express an attitude,…
Wittgenstein, aspect-seeing and the life of poetic metaphor
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspect-seeing offer a precise way to think about what happens when a poem changes before our eyes. The familiar duck-rabbit…
A Philosopher’s Guide to the Literary Uses of Illocutionary Force
Literary language does things. A sentence in a novel may promise, accuse, warn, console, evade, or authorise an action, even when it appears to describe an…
Cavell, Emerson, And The Renewal Of Literary Criticism
Stanley Cavell’s engagement with Ralph Waldo Emerson changed the possibilities of literary interpretation. He treated Emerson not simply as a…
Ordinary language philosophy and the difficulty of irony
Irony has long resisted tidy philosophical analysis. From the Greek rhetoricians through the Romantics to contemporary literary theory, writers have warned…