Imagining Language: An AnthologyJed Rasula, Steve McCaffery 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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Contents
Introduction | |
From A Humument A Treated Victorian | |
Words in Freedom | |
Conditions 1913 | |
xvi | |
69 | |
8 | |
11 | |
Writing for the Second Time through | 87 |
From Gems 1931 | 93 |
296 | 102 |
From Jubilate Agno 17591763 313 | 124 |
413 | 151 |
318 | 151 |
Biliteral Cipher 1613 | 151 |
Character Letter 1958 | 151 |
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Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony and Interpretation Tim Conley No preview available - 2003 |