Literary And Linguistic Approaches To Feminist Narratology Book

Recommend as an introductory text to poets, this will give a poststructural sensibility to understanding language, philosophy, thought. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on "Border Games" -- for in a way, games and language go hand in hand to determine our thinking. If we stop and think... we start to look at words differently, especially in this age of "commodification". What is the use of writing... of studying philosophy, if it doesn't improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life? Dana Gioia's "can poetry matter" is mentioned in the introduction -- connected to the "what does IT matter" -- so what is this "it"? What poetry game do we need to be playing? Interesting questions, with, of course, no answers, but good shadows to trace edges of what words suggest.
"Distrust of grammar is the first requisite of philosophizing" (Notes on Logic, 106) -- and so of course, you will read about Gertrude Stein and "Arthur a Grammar" (Are there grammars?) and be exposed to ways literature uses language and every day speech until it becomes clear that pondering the nuances of "is" that connects roses and red, of course is not the same as 2+2 is 4 and the weight of differences in givens begins to push the mind.