Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McCaffery, Steve
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.
Series:	Avant-garde and modernism studies.
Subjects:	Canadian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc. American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc. North America > Intellectual life > 20th century. Experimental poetry > History and criticism. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > North America. English language > Semantics. Semantics. Poetics. Poésie canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. Poésie expérimentale > Histoire et critique. Avant-garde (esthétique) > Amérique du Nord. Anglais (langue) > Sémantique. Lyrik. Avantgardeliteratur. Kanada. Englisch. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Experimental poetry. Intellectual life. North America. Geschichte 1900-2000 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

1. Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy
2. Zarathustran 'Pataphysics
3. Blaser's Deleuzean Folds
4. Charles Olson's Art of Language: The Mayan Substratum of Projective Verse
5. Richard Bentley: The First Poststructuralist? The 1732 Recension of Paradise Lost
6. Johnson and Wittgenstein: Some Correlations and Bifurcations in the Dictionary and the Philosophical Investigations
7. 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
8. Sade: Writing and Modernity
9. Temporality and the New Sentence: Phrase Propulsion in the Writing of Karen Mac Cormack
10. Voice in Extremis
11. Jackson Mac Low: Samsara in Lagado
12. The Scandal of Sincerity: Toward a Levinasian Poetics.