Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics

363 Pages·2001·4.744 MB·English

by  Steve McCaffery

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 CharlesOlson’sArtof Language:
TheMayanSubstratumof ProjectiveVerse,
 RichardBentley:TheFirstPoststructuralist?
TheRecensionofParadiseLost,
 JohnsonandWittgenstein:SomeCorrelationsandBifurcations
intheDictionaryandthePhilosophicalInvestigations,
 BetweenVerbiVocoandVisual,SomePrecursorsofGrammatology:
ScriptioContinua,MercuriusvanHelmont,JoshuaSteele,
PeterWalkdenFogg,andThatPrecariousBinaryof
Speech/Writing,
 Sade:WritingandModernity,
 TemporalityandtheNewSentence:
PhrasePropulsionintheWritingof KarenMacCormack,
 VoiceinExtremis,
 JacksonMacLow:SamsarainLagado,
 TheScandalofSincerity:TowardaLevinasianPoetics,
Notes,
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