Revolution of the ordinary literary studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Wittgenstein. "Five red apples": meaning and use -- Our lives in language: language-games, grammar, forms of life -- Concepts: Wittgenstein and deconstruction -- Thinking through examples: the case of intersectionality -- Part II: Differences. Saussure: language, sign, world -- Signs, marks, and Archie Bunker: post-Saussurean visions of language -- Critique, clarity, and common sense: ordinary language philosophy and politics -- Part III: Reading. "Nothing is hidden": beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion -- Reading as a practice of acknowledgment: the text as action and expression -- Language, judgment, and attention: writing in the world.