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Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics

Collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice.
eBook, English, 2001
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (363 pages)
9780810117891, 9780810117907, 9780810121409, 0810117894, 0810117908, 0810121409
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Prior to Meaning

The Protosemantic and Poetics
By STEVE MCCAFFERY

Northwestern University Press

Copyright © 2001 Northwestern University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-8101-1790-7

Contents

List of Illustrations...........................................................................................................................................................................................ixAcknowledgments.................................................................................................................................................................................................xiIntroduction....................................................................................................................................................................................................xv1 Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy...................................................................................................................................................................32 Zarathustran 'Pataphysics.....................................................................................................................................................................................153 Blaser's Deleuzean Folds......................................................................................................................................................................................314 Charles Olson's Art of Language: The Mayan Substratum of Projective Verse.....................................................................................................................................455 Richard Bentley: The First Poststructuralist? The 1732 Recension of Paradise Lost.............................................................................................................................586 Johnson and Wittgenstein: Some Correlations and Bifurcations in the Dictionary and the Philosophical Investigations...........................................................................................757 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.....................1058 Sade: Writing and Modernity...................................................................................................................................................................................1259 Temporality and the New Sentence: Phrase Propulsion in the Writing of Karen Mac Cormack.......................................................................................................................14910 Voice in Extremis............................................................................................................................................................................................16111 Jackson Mac Low: Samsara in Lagado...........................................................................................................................................................................18712 The Scandal of Sincerity: Toward a Levinasian Poetics........................................................................................................................................................204Notes...........................................................................................................................................................................................................231Works Cited.....................................................................................................................................................................................................293Index...........................................................................................................................................................................................................321


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