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Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics
- Title
- Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery.
- Author
- McCaffery, Steve.
- Publication
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Granary Books Language Writing Collection (Princeton University) NjP
- Description
- xxiii, 338 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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 tweny-five years. In essays that are wide-ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice-- to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical principles against which it must be read.
- Series Statement
- Avant-garde & modernism studies
- Uniform Title
- Avant-garde and modernism studies
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1900-2000
- Canadian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
- Experimental poetry > History and criticism
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > North America
- English language > Semantics
- Semantics
- Poetics
- Literature > Philosophy
- semantics
- Literature > Philosophy
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
- English language > Semantics
- Experimental poetry
- Intellectual life
- Poetics
- Semantics
- Lyrik
- Avantgardeliteratur
- Poésie canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc
- Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc
- Poésie expérimentale > Histoire et critique
- Avant-garde (esthétique) > Amérique du Nord
- Anglais (langue) > Sémantique
- North America > Intellectual life > 20th century
- North America
- Kanada
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-319) and index.
- Source (note)
- Granary Books, Inc.
- Contents
- 1. Insufficiency 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 1732 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.
- ISBN
- 0810117894
- 9780810117891
- 0810117908
- 9780810117907
- LCCN
- 2001001062
- OCLC
- ocm46343520
- 46343520
- SCSB-1234314
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library