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Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (Thinking Literature) - Hardcover

Dworkin, Craig

 
9780226743424: Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (Thinking Literature)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 022674342X ISBN 13: 9780226743424
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022674342X
ISBN 13 
9780226743424
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
250
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