| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 438 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-420) and index. |
| Contents |
A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking -- If Written Is Writing -- Who Is Speaking? -- Rejection of Closure -- Language and "Paradise" -- Two Stein Talks -- Line -- Strangeness -- Materials (for Dubravka Djuric) -- Comments for Manuel Brito -- Person and Description -- Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem -- La Faustienne -- Three Lives -- Forms in Alterity: On Translation -- Barbarism -- Reason -- A Common Sense -- Happily. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hejinian, Lyn -- Aesthetics.
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Hejinian, Lyn. |
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Aesthetics. |
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Hejinian, Lyn. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Essays (teksten)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hejinian, Lyn. Language of inquiry. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520216997 (DLC) 00037776 (OCoLC)43864298 |
| ISBN |
9780520922273 (electronic book) |
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0520922271 (electronic book) |
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0585389861 (electronic book) |
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9780585389868 (electronic book) |
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1597347000 |
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9781597347006 |
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1282758748 |
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9781282758742 |
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0520216997 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520216990 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520217004 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520217003 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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