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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812689803321

Autore

McCaffery Steve

Titolo

Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / / Steve McCaffery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Ill., : Northwestern University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-8101-2140-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Avant-garde & modernism studies

Disciplina

811/.509971

Soggetti

Canadian poetry - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Experimental poetry - History and criticism

English language - Semantics

Semantics

Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Insuf  ciency of Theory to Poetical Economy -- 2. Zarathustran  Pataphysics -- 3. Blaser s Deleuzean Folds -- 4. Charles Olson's Art of Language The Mayan Substratum of Projective Verse -- 5. Richard Bentley: The First Poststructuralist? The         Recension of Paradise Lost -- 6. Johnson and Wittgenstein Some Correlations and Bifurcations in the Dictionary and the Philosophical Investigations -- 7. Between Verbi Voco and Visual, Some Precursors of Grammatology Scriptio Continua, Mercurius van Helmont, Joshua Steele, Peter Walkden Fogg, and That Precarious Binary of Speech/ Writing -- 8. Sade Writing and Modernity -- 9. Temporality and the New Sentence Phrase Propulsion in the Writing of Karen Mac Cormack -- 10. Voice in Extremis -- 11. Jackson Mac Low Samsara in Lagado -- 12. The Scandal of Sincerity Toward a Levinasian Poetics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Illustration Credits.