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Dictionary poetics : toward a radical lexicography / Craig Dworkin.

Author/creator Dworkin, Craig Douglas author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice ©2020
Description245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Verbal arts: studies in poetics
Verbal arts--studies in poetics. ^A1256985
Contents Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography -- Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky's Thanks to the Dictionary -- Webster's Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky's The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen's Discrete Series -- Webster's New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer -- The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh -- Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang and Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2019057431
ISBN9780823287987 hardcover
ISBN082328798X hardcover
ISBN9780823287963 paperback
ISBN0823287963 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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