The Language of Inquiry Paperback / softback
by Lyn Hejinian
Paperback / softback
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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets.
Her autobiographical poem "My Life", a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. "The Language of Inquiry" is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture.
Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years.
Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address.
Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception.
Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures.
Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:447 pages, 3 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:27/12/2000
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- ISBN:9780520217003
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:447 pages, 3 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:27/12/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520217003
