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The language of inquiry [[electronic resource] /] / Lyn Hejinian



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Autore: Hejinian Lyn Visualizza persona
Titolo: The language of inquiry [[electronic resource] /] / Lyn Hejinian Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
Disciplina: 814/.54
Soggetto topico: Poetics
Soggetto non controllato: academic
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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-420) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Lyn 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The language of inquiry  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612758744
1-282-75874-8
0-520-92227-1
1-59734-700-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783052003321
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