Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCaffery, Steve.

Series:

Avant-garde and modernism studies.

Avant-garde & modernism studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Canadian poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American poetry.

Experimental poetry--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry.

English language--Semantics.

English language.

Semantics.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8101-2140-9

OCLC:

70770681