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Rough Ground by Alix Anne Shaw; Alix Anne Shaw is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rough Ground about?

Rough Ground is a translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus from philosophical treatise to poetic text. In this work, Wittgenstein argues that language sets the limits of what can be said and thought meaningfully. He famously concludes that "that which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence." Such topics (as Wittgenstein himself noted) include much of human activity that does not have a basis in objects, including philosophy and poetry. Clearly, as a poet, I do not share his view. The work incorporates many different methods of literal and semantic translation. Although the format of the Tractatus--long lines in short sections--lends itself well to poetic form, the language and syntax do not. Wittgenstein's text is notoriously abstract and austere. In writing my own text, I began by using simple substitutions of a concrete noun for an abstract one; as the work progressed, I was forced to reinvent my method in each section. The result of these manipulations is a text in which Wittgenstein's concepts are discernible, but in which there is more and more slippage between his language and my own. This slippage, of course, underscores the weaknesses

Author

Alix Anne Shaw; Alix Anne Shaw

Publisher

Wilkes-Barre, PA: Etruscan Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780997745559

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities