
Imagining Language
An Anthology
MIT Press
Published on 15. October 1998
Book
Hardback
638 pages
978-0-262-18186-0 (ISBN)
Description
When works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Stein's Tender Buttons were first introduced, they went so far beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were widely considered "unreadable," if not scandalous. Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery take these and other examples of twentieth-century avant-garde writing as the starting point for a collection of writings that demonstrates a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present. The anthology, which spans three millennia, generally bypasses chronology in order to illuminate unexpected congruities between seemingly discordant materials. Together, the writings celebrate the scope and prodigality of linguistic speculation in the West going back to the pre-Socratics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
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Cloth over boards
Illustrations
223 illus.; 223 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1837 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-18186-0 (9780262181860)
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Persons
Jed Rasula is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Steve McCaffery is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York.
Steve McCaffery is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York.