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  1. Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
    the American cratylus
    Author: Billitteri, Carla
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually... more

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    This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson. This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282507737; 0230608361; 9780230620407; 9781282507739; 9780230608368
    Edition: 1st ed
    Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
    Subjects: Poetry; Sociolinguistics; Poetics; American poetry
    Other subjects: Whitman, Walt (1819-1892); Jackson, Laura (Riding) (1901-1991); Olson, Charles (1910-1970)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xx, 219 p), facsims, 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The True Forms of Things: Cratylism and American Poetry; 2 Substantial Words: Walt Whitman and the Power of Names; 3 The Linguistic Ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Language of Truth; 4 A State Destroys a Noun: Charles Olson and Objectism; Coda: Language Poetry and Neo-Cratylism; Notes; Works Cited; Index