Dictionary Poetics : : Toward a Radical Lexicography / / Craig Dworkin.

The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific diction...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography
  • 1. Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary
  • 2. Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A”
  • 3. The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s Discrete Series
  • 4. Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer
  • 5. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh
  • 6. Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African- American Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index