Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson : the American Cratylus

Author(s)

• Billitteri, Carla

Bibliographic Information

Language and the renewal of society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson : the American Cratylus

Carla Billitteri

（Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Note

Bibliography: p. [189]-202

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The true forms of things : cratylism and American poetry
• Substantial words : Walt Whitman and the power of names
• The linguistic ultimate : Laura (Riding) Jackson and the language of truth
• A state destroys a noun : Charles Olson and objectism
• Coda : Language poetry and neo-cratylism

Details

• NCID: BB01210167
• ISBN:
  • 9780230608368
• LCCN: 2008036705
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 219 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS310.S7
  • DC22 : 811.009/3552
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics -- United States
  • LCSH : Poetics
  • LCSH : Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA91465113