04526nam 2200997 a 450 991082522000332120240410062906.097866127587441-282-75874-80-520-92227-11-59734-700-010.1525/9780520922273(CKB)1000000000004508(EBL)223206(OCoLC)475927283(SSID)ssj0000189032(PQKBManifestationID)11165814(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189032(PQKBWorkID)10154364(PQKB)11666969(MiAaPQ)EBC223206(OCoLC)49570122(MdBmJHUP)muse30516(DE-B1597)519746(DE-B1597)9780520922273(Au-PeEL)EBL223206(CaPaEBR)ebr10053508(CaONFJC)MIL275874(EXLCZ)99100000000000450820000404d2000 ub 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrThe language of inquiry[electronic resource] /Lyn Hejinian1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20001 online resource (449 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21699-7 0-520-21700-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-420) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking --Preface to Writing Is an Aid to Memory --If Written Is Writing --Who Is Speaking? --The Rejection of Closure --Language and "Paradise" --Two Stein Talks --Line --Strangeness --Materials (for Dubravka Djuric) --Comments for Manuel Brito --The Person and Description --The Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem --La Faustienne --Three Lives --Forms in Alterity: On Translation --Barbarism --Reason --A Common Sense --Happily --Works Cited --Acknowledgment of Permissions --IndexLyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address. Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.Poeticsacademic.american literature.american poetry.american poets.autobiographical.collected works.consciousness.contemporary poetry.creative writing.enlightenment.essay collection.faust.female poets.gertrude stein.knowledge.language poets.literary analysis.literary criticism.literary culture.martin heidegger.modern poetry.perception.philosophy.poetry.political.politics.scheherazade.scholarly.sir francis bacon.time.Poetics.814/.54Hejinian Lyn1630855MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825220003321The language of inquiry3969379UNINA