Literature and the Touch of the Real

By David Schalkwyk

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Literature and the Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language or the essential divorce of language from the real. It does this by, first, offering a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics. Secondly, in a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida, it argues that far from reducing reality to language, Derrida's concept of the text in fact argues that the world cannot be eradicated from the linguistic. Thirdly, it offers an account of Ludwig Wittgenstein's concepts of grammar, criteria, aspect perception, and language-games that reintegrates language and the world while avoiding the instrumentalist pitfalls of realism and empiricism.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0874137918

ISBN13:9780874137910

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:UNKNO

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

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Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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