The language of inquiry /

This work brings together 20 essays written by the contemporary American poet, Lyn Hejinian. Central to these essays are the themes of time, knowledge, consciousness and perception, and the subjects include Sir Francis Bacon and Martin Heidegger.

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Main Author: Hejinian, Lyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780520922273
0520922271
0585389861
9780585389868
1597347000
9781597347006
1282758748
9781282758742
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking
  • If Written Is Writing
  • Who Is Speaking?
  • The Rejection of Closure
  • Language and "Paradise"
  • Two Stein Talks
  • Line
  • Strangeness
  • Materials (for Dubravka Djuric)
  • Comments for Manuel Brito
  • The Person and Description
  • The Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem
  • La Faustienne
  • Three Lives
  • Forms in Alterity: On Translation
  • Barbarism
  • Reason
  • A Common Sense
  • Happily.