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

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230620407

ISBN: 978-1-349-37524-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 5, 2015

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The True Forms of Things: Cratylism and American Poetry

Billitteri, Carla

Pages: 1 –37

[This book starts from the assumption that poetics are enabling discourses that support intellectual projects in which poetry as such is not always the horizon. For the three poets I discuss in these pages, Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson, poetry is a means to an end; that...
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Substantial Words: Walt Whitman and the Power of Names

Billitteri, Carla

Pages: 39 –75

[A self-described student of language, who thought of his poetry as “a language experiment,” “an attempt to give the spirit, the body, the man, new words, new potentialities of speech,” Walt Whitman contemplated writing his own dictionary and remained a lifelong collector of words and idiomatic...
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The Linguistic Ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Language of Truth

Billitteri, Carla

Pages: 77 –114

[The survival of Cratylism into the modernist period and beyond makes clear that Whitman’s linguistic project of renewing society through language was not a peculiarity of his own poetics or historical moment. The long career of Laura (Riding) Jackson provides an equally compelling example.1 From...
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A State Destroys a Noun: Charles Olson and Objectism

Billitteri, Carla

Pages: 115 –152

[In an unpublished prose typescript from 1963 (figure 2), drawing on a footnote in Eric A. Havelock’s Preface to Plato, Charles Olson made the following cryptic observation regarding the ill effects of abstract reasoning on language: A “State” destroys a noun, and you can do it in three ways: you...
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CODA Language Poetry and Neo-Cratylism

Billitteri, Carla

Pages: 153 –164

[Whenever linguisticity and social vision are conjoined in poetry— whenever “a more than ordinary consciousness of how to do things with words” takes the world as well as language as its object (Kramer 14)—impulses toward Cratylism will inevitably arise. These impulses may be resisted, they may...

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