Literature as the Measure of our Lives

Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele (2020) Literature as the Measure of our Lives. In: WITTGENSTEIN AND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE :. Routledge. ISBN 9781351202671
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In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Toni Morrison said: 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' In this paper, I explore, with the help of Wittgenstein, how the language of literature can be the measure of our lives only by exceeding language – that is, by showing what cannot be said.
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Additional information © 2020 Taylor & Francis. This is the accepted manuscript version of a chapter which has been published in final form at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351202671/chapters/10.4324/9781351202671-13
Keywords philosophy of literature, literature, wittgenstein, f. r. leavis, tractatus logico-phiosophicus, language, showing vs saying, enactment
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