Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson

Name: Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
ISBN: 9780230608368

the American cratylus

ដោយ Carla Billitteri

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ទ្រង់ទ្រាយ: 240 ទំព័រនានា, Hardcover
បោះពុម្ពលើកដំបូង: 2009
អ្នកបោះពុម្ពផ្សាយ: Palgrave Macmillan
មុខវិជ្ជា: Whitman·Walt·1819-1892·Criticism and interpretation·Jackson·Laura ·1901-1991·Criticism and interpretation·Olson·Charles·1910-1970·Criticism and interpretation·American poetry·History and criticism·Poetry·Soc
ភាសា: English

Carla Billitteri's book is an insightful, long overdue round-up of the Cratylic tradition in American poetry - the assumption that "the word", as Borges put it, is an "archetype for the thing", that "In the letters of 'rose' is the rose / and all the Nile flows through 'Nile'." The introduction superbly lays out the different forms that this theory has taken historically, and notes its peculiar persistence in America, as well as its application to the constitution of the society.