Wittgenstein, Kraus, and Valéry
Subtitle: a paradigm for poetic rhyme and reason
By: Luis Miguel Isava.
Series: Phenomenology & literature ;; v. 1
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.; Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936.; Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Poetry -- History and criticism.; Phenomenology and literature.
Description: "This book attempts to establish a paradigm for the way language works - that is, means and creates - in contemporary Western poetry. The "model" is developed from a rereading of Ludwig Wittgenstein's theory of language, a rereading that is complemented with Karl Kraus's conception of language creation and Paul Valery's theories of poetry and language.

The implications of the paradigm are then explored from several perspectives: the process of writing and reading; the mechanisms of language combination; the "ideational" content of its "crystallizations" (meanings); and their materiality as linguistic objects. As a result, the paradigm allows us to understand the philosophical import of poetry as a form-of-life inextricably attached to the signifying mechanisms of language."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.