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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Craig DworkinPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823287963ISBN 10: 0823287963 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 05 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1 1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky's Thanks to the Dictionary | 33 2 Webster's Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky's A | 48 3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen's Discrete Series | 77 4 Webster's New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101 5 The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129 6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang and Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge | 161 Acknowledgments | 185 Notes | 187 Index | 239ReviewsIn Dictionary Poetics, Dworkin seeks to uncover the literary texts of poems at the sentence level... Many readers... will enjoy diving in to better understand the layers of meaning in the poetry. * Choice * Dictionary Poetics presents startlingly new ways of reading relatively well-known modernist texts. Dworkin's scholarship is exemplary: rigorous, enviably insightful, and frequently brilliant. Dictionary Poetics is the book of a brilliant scholar working at the height of his powers. Dworkin's already legendary blend of scholarly thoroughness and poetic inventiveness reaches a new level in this study. -- Jacob Edmond, author of Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media A captivating study: Dworkin's readings are not only immensely learned; they are, from chapter to chapter, revelatory. Dictionary Poetics offers a remarkable set of keys for reading-and unlocking-recondite modern and contemporary poetry, and this knowledge is conveyed with a deep comprehension of the material and historical contexts of their production. -- Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania "Dictionary Poetics presents startlingly new ways of reading relatively well-known modernist texts. Dworkin's scholarship is exemplary: rigorous, enviably insightful, and frequently brilliant. Dictionary Poetics is the book of a brilliant scholar working at the height of his powers. Dworkin's already legendary blend of scholarly thoroughness and poetic inventiveness reaches a new level in this study.---Jacob Edmond, author of Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media A captivating study: Dworkin's readings are not only immensely learned; they are, from chapter to chapter, revelatory. Dictionary Poetics offers a remarkable set of keys for reading--and unlocking--recondite modern and contemporary poetry, and this knowledge is conveyed with a deep comprehension of the material and historical contexts of their production.---Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania In Dictionary Poetics, Dworkin seeks to uncover the literary texts of poems at the sentence level... Many readers... will enjoy diving in to better understand the layers of meaning in the poetry.-- ""Choice""" Radical Lexicography presents startlingly new ways of reading relatively well-known modernist texts. Dworkin's scholarship is exemplary: rigorous, enviably insightful, and frequently brilliant. Radical Lexicography is the book of a brilliant scholar working at the height of his powers. Dworkin's already legendary blend of scholarly thoroughness and poetic inventiveness reaches a new level in this study. -- Jacob Edmond, author of Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media A captivating study: Dworkin's readings are not only immensely learned; they are, from chapter to chapter, revelatory. Radical Lexicography offers a remarkable set of keys for reading-and unlocking-recondite modern and contemporary poetry, and this knowledge is conveyed with a deep comprehension of the material and historical contexts of their production. -- Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania Author InformationCraig Dworkin is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Reading the Illegible (2003) and No Medium (2013) and is the editor or co-editor of six volumes of literary criticism and avant-garde poetry. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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