Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and PoeticsPrior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read. |
Contents
Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy | 3 |
Zarathustran Pataphysics | 15 |
Blasers Deleuzean Folds | 31 |
The First Poststructuralist? | 58 |
Some Correlations and Bifurcations | 75 |
Writing and Modernity | 125 |
ΙΟ | 161 |
Samsara in Lagado | 187 |
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