Titlebook: Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson; The American Cratylu Carla Billitteri Book

Forehead-Lift

The True Forms of Things: Cratylism and American Poetry,horizon. For the three poets I discuss in these pages, Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson, poetry is a means to an end; that end includes the Utopian prospect of a renewal of society. In conceiving of poetics as enabling discourses, I mean, then, to discuss the inaccuracies, fau

Terrace

Substantial Words: Walt Whitman and the Power of Names,s, new potentialities of speech,” Walt Whitman contemplated writing his own dictionary and remained a lifelong collector of words and idiomatic expressions (cited in Traubel, ., n.p.). Living in a time when the question of a national language was at the center of lively political debates and was gen

Occipital-Lobe

The Linguistic Ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Language of Truth,ot a peculiarity of his own poetics or historical moment. The long career of Laura (Riding) Jackson provides an equally compelling example.. From 1925, when she announced herself to the literary world in a bold manifesto calling for spiritual renewal through poetry, until her death in 1991, when she

Solace

CODA Language Poetry and Neo-Cratylism,e world as well as language as its object (Kramer 14)—impulses toward Cratylism will inevitably arise. These impulses may be resisted, they may be entertained playfully as tropes, they may become temptations difficult to avoid, but the very fact that they arise will in itself be noteworthy, an indic

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euphoria

A State Destroys a Noun: Charles Olson and Objectism,n an unpublished prose typescript from 1963 (figure 2), drawing on a footnote in Eric A. Havelock’s ., Charles Olson made the following cryptic observation regarding the ill effects of abstract reasoning on language: