Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day
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Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Veröffentlichungsort:
Oxford
Entstehungszeit:
2022
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1 online resource (211 pages)
Sprache:
Englisch
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Abstract:
A study of the notion of the everyday in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein that explores the interdependence of expressive form and the conceptualization or framing of questions about thinking, feeling, and communicating.
Cover -- The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Overlooked and Underfelt: Reading in Earnest -- Literature, Philosophy, and the Region of the Commonplace -- or, at Home with Wittgenstein . . . in England -- Wittgenstein's Marginality: An Excursus -- "I am aiming at something different": Wittgenstein's Dissent -- Staying Interested: Interpretation and Self-implication -- 1: The General, the Particular, and the Art of the Commonplace -- On Non-conceptualArt -- Family Photos -- Leaves, Trees and Water Towers -- Cheap Common Things, Old Women, Philosophers -- The Commonplace and the Memorable -- 2: A Novel Concerning Human Understanding: Middlemarch and the Philosophical Commonplace -- "The Future of Philosophy"?: Between Eliot and Wittgenstein -- Extraordinary Insight? -- ". . . of which the other knew nothing": A Philosophical Commonplace -- Middlemarch Un-Locked -- "Remarkably like the portrait of Locke" -- "A picture held us captive" -- The right answers to the wrong questions -- 3: "When we feel the truth of a commonplace": Form and Inflection in Eliot and Wittgenstein -- A Woman is Crying -- "Something about which nothing can be said": Inwardness as Exclamation -- Middlemarch Unguided: Expecting a Response Without Formulating a Question -- What she knows when he says "my love" -- Excursus: On a "little speech of four words" -- 4: The Spirit of the Commonplace, or When does it make sense to use the word "soul"? -- Taking Note -- Poetry Incarnate -- Making Sense of Soul: "Of course I understand it!" -- "I would like to be deep . . . yet I shy away from the abyss in the human heart!" -- "Commonplace and even trite," or "interesting and important"? -- "Upon my soul" and "in my heart".
Cover -- The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Overlooked and Underfelt: Reading in Earnest -- Literature, Philosophy, and the Region of the Commonplace -- or, at Home with Wittgenstein . . . in England -- Wittgenstein's Marginality: An Excursus -- "I am aiming at something different": Wittgenstein's Dissent -- Staying Interested: Interpretation and Self-implication -- 1: The General, the Particular, and the Art of the Commonplace -- On Non-conceptualArt -- Family Photos -- Leaves, Trees and Water Towers -- Cheap Common Things, Old Women, Philosophers -- The Commonplace and the Memorable -- 2: A Novel Concerning Human Understanding: Middlemarch and the Philosophical Commonplace -- "The Future of Philosophy"?: Between Eliot and Wittgenstein -- Extraordinary Insight? -- ". . . of which the other knew nothing": A Philosophical Commonplace -- Middlemarch Un-Locked -- "Remarkably like the portrait of Locke" -- "A picture held us captive" -- The right answers to the wrong questions -- 3: "When we feel the truth of a commonplace": Form and Inflection in Eliot and Wittgenstein -- A Woman is Crying -- "Something about which nothing can be said": Inwardness as Exclamation -- Middlemarch Unguided: Expecting a Response Without Formulating a Question -- What she knows when he says "my love" -- Excursus: On a "little speech of four words" -- 4: The Spirit of the Commonplace, or When does it make sense to use the word "soul"? -- Taking Note -- Poetry Incarnate -- Making Sense of Soul: "Of course I understand it!" -- "I would like to be deep . . . yet I shy away from the abyss in the human heart!" -- "Commonplace and even trite," or "interesting and important"? -- "Upon my soul" and "in my heart".
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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Schlossplatz 1
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+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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