Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the American cratylus /
First Statement of Responsibility
Carla Billitteri.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xx, 219 pages :
Other Physical Details
facsimiles ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
The true forms of things: cratylism and American poetry -- Substantial words: Walt Whitman and the power of names -- The linguistic ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the language of truth -- A state destroys a noun: Charles Olson and objectism -- Coda: Language poetry and neo-cratylism.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This study 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.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Jackson, Laura (Riding),1901-1991-- Criticism and interpretation.
Olson, Charles,1910-1970-- Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Criticism and interpretation.
Jackson, Laura (Riding),1901-1991-- analys och tolkning.
Jackson, Laura (Riding),1901-1991.
Jackson, Laura,1901-1991.
Jackson, Laura.
Olson, Charles,1910-1970-- analys och tolkning.
Olson, Charles,1910-1970.
Olson, Charles,1910-1970.
Olson, Charles.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- analys och tolkning.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.
Whitman, Walt.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American poetry-- History and criticism.
Poetics.
Poetry-- Social aspects-- United States.
Sociolinguistics-- United States.
American poetry.
Amerikansk poesi-- historia-- 1800-talet-- 1900-talet.