BDLiterature and The Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language, or the essential divorce of language from the real. It offers a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida, and an account of Ludwig Wittgenstein's concepts of 'grammar, ' 'criteria, ' 'aspect perception, ' and 'language-games