Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: The American Cratylus

Billitteri, C.

This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230608368

DOI: 10.1057/9780230620407

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 219