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- catalog abstract ""English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible language" of modernism. McGann then offers a philosophical investigation into the relation of knowledge and truth to this kind of imaginative writing. Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work with older traditions of so-called Adamic language. McGann argues that in modernist writing, philosophical nominalism emerges as a key aesthetic point of departure. Such writing thus develops a pragmatic and performative "answer to Plato" in the matter of poetry's relation to truth and philosophy. -- Book cover.".
- catalog contributor b4065065.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible language" of modernism. McGann then offers a philosophical investigation into the relation of knowledge and truth to this kind of imaginative writing. Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work with older traditions of so-called Adamic language. McGann argues that in modernist writing, philosophical nominalism emerges as a key aesthetic point of departure. Such writing thus develops a pragmatic and performative "answer to Plato" in the matter of poetry's relation to truth and philosophy. -- Book cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-190) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson -- pt. 1. A Revolution of the Word. 1. "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris. 2. Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries) -- pt. 2. Dichtung und Wahrheit. 3. The Truth of Poetry. An Argument. 4. The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue).".
- catalog extent "xvi, 196 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691015449 (PB : acid-free paper) :".
- catalog identifier "0691069859 (CL : acid-free paper) :".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "821/.91091 20".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Art and literature English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Art and literature.".
- catalog subject "Book design English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Book design History.".
- catalog subject "English poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Morris, William, 1834-1896 Influence.".
- catalog subject "PR478.M6 M38 1993".
- catalog subject "Printing English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Printing History.".
- catalog subject "Visual poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson -- pt. 1. A Revolution of the Word. 1. "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris. 2. Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries) -- pt. 2. Dichtung und Wahrheit. 3. The Truth of Poetry. An Argument. 4. The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue).".
- catalog title "Black riders : the visible language of modernism / Jerome McGann.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".