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Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson : the American cratylus / Carla Billitteri.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Billitteri, Carla.
Series:
Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.
Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
American poetry--History and criticism.
American poetry.
Poetry--Social aspects--United States.
Poetry.
Sociolinguistics--United States.
Sociolinguistics.
Criticism and interpretation.
Poetry--Social aspects.
United States.
Poetics.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt.
Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991--Criticism and interpretation.
Jackson, Laura (Riding).
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
Olson, Charles.
Physical Description:
xx, 219 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Contents:
The true forms of things: cratylism and American poetry
Substantial words: Walt Whitman and the power of names
The linguistic ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the language of truth
A state destroys a noun: Charles Olson and objectism
Coda: Language poetry and neo-cratylism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-202) and index.
ISBN:
0230608361
9780230608368
OCLC:
244476564

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