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Radium of the Word - Craig Dworkin

Radium of the Word

A Poetics of Materiality

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Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-74356-1 (ISBN)
CHF 45,40 inkl. MwSt
With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations, Craig Dworkin traces hidden networks across the surface of texts, examining how typography, and even individual letters and marks of punctuation, can reveal patterns that are significant without being symbolic—fully meaningful without communicating any preordained message.

Radium of the Word takes its title from Mina Loy’s poem for Gertrude Stein, which hails her as the Madame “Curie / of the laboratory / of vocabulary.” In this spirit, Dworkin considers prose as a dynamic literary form, characterized by experimentation. Dworkin draws on examples from writers as diverse as Lyn Hejinian, William Faulkner, and Joseph Roth. He takes up the status of the proper name in Modernism, with examples from Stein, Loy, and Guillaume Apollinaire, and he offers in-depth analyses of individual authors from the counter-canon of the avant-garde, including P. Inman, Russell Atkins, N. H. Pritchard, and Andy Warhol. The result is an inspiring intervention in contemporary poetics.

Craig Dworkin is professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Reading the Illegible, No Medium, and Dictionary Poetics, as well as ten books of poetry, most recently, The Pine-Woods Notebook.

List of Figures
Introduction

One    The Prosaic Imagination

Two    The Onomastic Imagination

Three    The Logic of the Work (on P. Inman)

Four    The Logic of Print (on Russell Atkins)

Five    The Logic of Spacing (on N. H. Pritchard)

Six    The Logic of Registration (on Andy Warhol)
  Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Thinking Literature
Zusatzinfo 21 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 313 g
Themenwelt Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-226-74356-X / 022674356X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-74356-1 / 9780226743561
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