On Wittgenstein, Lydia Davis, and Other Uncanny Grammarians

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2022.0000

Ben Roth

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Abstract

Abstract:What would Wittgensteinian fiction—not overtly about or influenced by him, but that resonates with his thought—look like? Lydia Davis has avowed, but never explained, her admiration for Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her short and fragmentary fictions are attuned to how grammar and usage reveal our forms of life. Alongside briefer discussion of Adam Ehrlich Sachs and other contemporary American writers, I characterize both Wittgenstein and Davis as uncanny grammarians: though we live in language, we are never fully at home in it. Both press on our ordinary language in an extraordinary way, defamiliarizing the familiar to more explicitly understand it.

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论维特根斯坦、莉迪亚·戴维斯和其他神秘的语法学家

摘要：维特根斯坦的小说——不是公开地关于他或受到他的影响，而是与他的思想产生共鸣——会是什么样子？莉迪亚·戴维斯公开表示，但从未解释过她对路德维希·维特根斯坦的钦佩。她的短篇小说与语法和用法如何揭示我们的生活形式相适应。除了对Adam Ehrlich Sachs和其他当代美国作家进行简短的讨论外，我还将维特根斯坦和戴维斯描述为不可思议的语法学家：尽管我们生活在语言中，但我们从未完全沉浸在语言中。两人都以一种非同寻常的方式推动我们的普通语言，使熟悉的人陌生化，从而更明确地理解它。

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