Literature and its Language

Introduction: Words at Work,
Garry L. Hagberg. -
Part I. Wittgenstein, Austin: Meaning and Literary Performatives. -1. `I am, forsooth, a
layman
! Flann O Brien, Wittgenstein, and the Challenge of Ordinary Language,
Andrew Gaedtke. -
2. The Poetics of the Unpoetic: Literature, Ordinariness, and Raymond Carver s Minimalist Realism, Daniel Just. - 3. Bunbury Could Not Live, That Is What I Mean: Austin s Performative Speech and Truth in the Case of Oscar Wilde,
Luke Mueller. -
4. Contending with the Storm: Lear s Performatives,
Julian Lamb. -
Part II. The Case of Samuel Beckett. - 5. Now I can go on! : The Collapse of Linguistic Authority in Beckett s
Endgame
,
Greg Chase. -
6. Post-Apocalyptic Leftover: The Void of Language in Beckett' s
Murphy
and
Endgam
e,
Masoud Farahmandfar. -
7. Selves Lost and Regained: Retrospective vs. Prospective Quests forIdentity in Samuel Beckett s
Krapp s Last Tape
,
Ivan Nyusztay. -
Part III. The Meanings of Words: Defining by Showing. - 8. What is this world? : Chaucer, Realism, and Metaphysics,
Darragh Greene. -
9. Consenting as an Ethical Act: On the Meaning of a Word,
Robert B. Pierce. -
10. Fooling: Material Meaning-Making under Conditions of Epistemic Injustice,
Hannah Walser. -
11. A State of Mind as the Meaning of a Word: J. M. Coetzee s
Disgrace
,
Garry L. Hagberg. -
Part IV: Evocative and Uncanny Phrases. - 12. Rehearsing the Unexpected: Poetry and Rhythm in the (New) Age of the Poets,
Ruth Parkin-Gounelas. -
13. A Window. A Word. An Inkling,
Gordon C. F. Bearn. -
14. On Wittgenstein, Lydia Davis, and Other Uncanny Grammarians,
Ben Roth