Description
Book SynopsisProvides us with a strong means of developing such a method for literary criticism - a method that points the way forward beyond postmodern criticisms and to a categorically new approach to literary texts. This title discusses at length the implications of Wittgenstein for literary criticism and theory.
Trade Review“Susan Brill is a persistent scholar who has drawn together a wide net, and though her chosen task was to suggest Wittgensteinian strategies for reading literature and to caution literary critics about overinvested theories, her own literary and philosophical desire has been to be as inclusive and open as possible to the dynamics of texts without losing her own value center. Scholarship would surely be a better enterprise if more did what she has done with the persistence she has shown.”
-- C.W. Spinks, Trinity University,
Philosophy and Literature“This adventurous book clearly has another purpose, to display ways in which Wittgenstein’s philosophy can be used as a set of critical tools within the contexts of modern–postmodern debates; of psychological criticism; of canon formation, preservation and change; of feminism; and of poststructural literary theory. As such, it casts new light, and is a welcome addition.”
-- Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College,
The Philosophical Quarterly
