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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Zumhagen–yekpléPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226677019ISBN 10: 022667701 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 14 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Difficulty, Ethical Teaching, and the Yearning for Transformation in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Modernist Literature 1 Wittgenstein’s Puzzle: The Transformative Ethics of the Tractatus 2 The Everyday’s Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein 3 Woolf, Diamond, and the Difficulty of Reality 4 Wittgenstein, Joyce, and the Vanishing Problem of Life 5 A New Life Is a New Life: Teaching, Transformation, and Tautology in Coetzee’s Childhood of Jesus Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsA Different Order of Difficulty takes the very best in Wittgenstein and applies it expertly, astutely, and with impressive clarity to Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, and Coetzee. The results are both illuminating and inspiring. Instead of being mere vehicles for the transmission of ideas, modernist fictions become events, experiences, instruments of personal transformation; their opacity sets us challenges which can only be met if we change our fundamental attitude to ourselves and to the world. This is an important book, one which will, I hope, shape thinking on modernist fiction--and on Wittgenstein--for years to come. --Joshua Landy, Stanford University Zumhagen-Yekple's innovative study connects a great theme of modernist literary works, that of difficulty, with Wittgenstein's understanding of philosophy and the kinds of difficulty that it presents. A Different Order of Difficulty is enormously illuminating in the connections it makes between philosophical and literary questions--questions that are central in literary modernism and in Wittgenstein's thought. --Cora Diamond, University of Virginia Author InformationKaren Zumhagen-Yekplé is associate professor of English at Tulane University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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