Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
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Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson

The American Cratylus

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Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson

The American Cratylus

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Blank
  7. Contents
  8. Series Editor’s Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Abbreviations
  11. 1 The True Forms of Things: Cratylism and American Poetry
  12. 2 Substantial Words: Walt Whitman and the Power of Names
  13. 3 The Linguistic Ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Language of Truth
  14. 4 A State Destroys a Noun: Charles Olson and Objectism
  15. Coda: Language Poetry and Neo-Cratylism
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index