Infidel poetics
Subtitle: riddles, nightlife, substance
By: Daniel Tiffany.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry -- History and criticism; Poetry -- Social aspects; Riddles in literature; Nightlife in literature; Cant; Slang
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Lyric substance and social being; title: The spectacle of obscurity; title: Riddlecraft; title: Lost laboratories of the sphinx; title: Lyric monadologies; title: Infidel lyric : the rhymes of the canting crew; title: Flash crib : a genealogy of modern nightlife; title: Mother Goose and Mallarmé; title: Afterword: The art of disappearing.