Dworkin Dictionary Poetics

Toward a Radical Lexicography
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8797-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Dictionary Poetics analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. Authors include Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dworkin, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 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 239

Über Autor(innen)

Dworkin Craig:
Craig 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.Craig 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.