Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics
Collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice.
eBook, English, 2001
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (363 pages)
9780810117891, 9780810117907, 9780810121409, 0810117894, 0810117908, 0810121409
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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