Author: McCaffery, Steve
Title: Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics
Description: Evanston [IL], Northwestern Univ. Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxiii,339 pp. Minor rubbing. Small label to rear cover, VG. ¶ Contents: Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy; Zarathustran ' Pataphysics; Blaser's Deleuzean Folds; Charles Olson's Art of Language; Richard Bentlety: The First Poststructuralist? Johnson & Wittgenstein: Some Correltations & Bifurcations; Between Verbi Voco & Visual: Some Precursors of Grammatology; Sade: Writing & Modernity; Temporality & the New Sentence; Voice in Extremis; Jackson Mac Low: Samsara in Lagado; The Scandal of Sincerity: Toward a Levinasian Poetics.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Poetry, Canadian, Poetics Critical, Semantics, Literature Theory, English Language, Experimental,