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Black Riders The Visible Language of Modernism / Jerome McGann.
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999 Available online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGann, Jerome J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual poetry.
- Printing.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- English poetry.
- Book design.
- Art and literature.
- American poetry.
- Printing--English-speaking countries.
- Art and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Book design--English-speaking countries.
- Visual poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English-speaking countries.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896--Influence.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 35 halftones
- Place of Publication:
- [1993] Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible language" of modernism. McGann then offers a philosophical investigation into the relation of knowledge and truth to this kind of imaginative writing. Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work with older traditions of so-called Adamic language. McGann argues that in modernist writing, philosophical nominalism emerges as a key aesthetic point of departure. Such writing thus develops a pragmatic and performative "answer to Plato" in the matter of poetry's relation to truth and philosophy. -- Book cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson
- pt. 1. A Revolution of the Word. 1. "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris. 2. Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)
- pt. 2. Dichtung und Wahrheit. 3. The Truth of Poetry. An Argument. 4. The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691015446
- 0691015449
- OCLC:
- 1226679730
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