Black Riders : : The Visible Language of Modernism / / Jerome J. McGann.
"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,...
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McGann, Jerome J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Black Riders : The Visible Language of Modernism / Jerome J. McGann. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©1993 1 online resource (216 p.) : 35 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson -- PART ONE: A Revolution of the Word -- 1 "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris -- 2 Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries) -- PART TWO: Dichtung und Wahrheit -- 3 The Truth of Poetry. An Argument -- 4 The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue) -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) American poetry 20th century History and criticism. Art and literature English-speaking countries. Book design English-speaking countries. English poetry 20th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries. Printing English-speaking countries. Visual poetry History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Aesthetic movement. Alienation effect. Bibliographical styles. Burning Deck (publisher). Calligraphy. Chiswick Press. Critical theory. Dialogical model. Didacticism. Epic theatre. Falsity. Found texts. Golden type. Heuristics. Iconic condition. Imagination. Journal writing. Kelmscott Press. Literary history. Objectivism. Oulipo group. Papermaking. Postmodern works. Referentiality. Semiotics. Temporalities. Transcendentalism. Vorticism. White Rabbit Press. Word frequencies. Yeats, Lily. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221465?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691221465 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691221465.jpg |
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