Radium of the Word

Radium of the Word
Author: Craig Dworkin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022674373X


Download Radium of the Word Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations, Craig Dworkin traces hidden networks across the surface of texts, examining how typography, and even individual letters and marks of punctuation, can reveal patterns that are significant without being symbolic—fully meaningful without communicating any preordained message. Radium of the Word takes its title from Mina Loy’s poem for Gertrude Stein, which hails her as the Madame “Curie / of the laboratory / of vocabulary.” In this spirit, Dworkin considers prose as a dynamic literary form, characterized by experimentation. Dworkin draws on examples from writers as diverse as Lyn Hejinian, William Faulkner, and Joseph Roth. He takes up the status of the proper name in Modernism, with examples from Stein, Loy, and Guillaume Apollinaire, and he offers in-depth analyses of individual authors from the counter-canon of the avant-garde, including P. Inman, Russell Atkins, N. H. Pritchard, and Andy Warhol. The result is an inspiring intervention in contemporary poetics.


Radium of the Word
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Craig Dworkin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ord
Radium of the Word
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Craig Dworkin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ord
The Radium Girls
Language: en
Pages: 585
Authors: Kate Moore
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-18 - Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

GET EBOOK

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! For fans of Hidden Figures, comes the incredible true story of the women heroes
Radium
Language: en
Pages: 11
Authors: Radium Company of Colorado
Categories: Radium
Type: BOOK - Published: 1920 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Half Lives
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Lucy Jane Santos
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life. Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of