Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
Subtitle: the American cratylus
By: by Carla Billitteri.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation; Jackson, Laura (Riding), -- 1901-1991 -- Criticism and interpretation; Olson, Charles, -- 1910-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation; American poetry -- History and criticism; Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States; Sociolinguistics -- United States; Poetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The true forms of things: cratylism and American poetry; title: Substantial words: Walt Whitman and the power of names; title: The linguistic ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the language of truth; title: A state destroys a noun: Charles Olson and objectism; title: Language poetry and neo-cratylism.