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The language of inquiry / Lyn Hejinian.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hejinian, Lyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetics.
- Hejinian, Lyn--Aesthetics.
- Hejinian, Lyn.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-420) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612758744
- 9781282758742
- 1282758748
- 9780520922273
- 0520922271
- 9781597347006
- 1597347000
- OCLC:
- 475927283
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