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A Thing about Language (Poetics of the New)
A Thing about Language - Poetics of the New Author:Gerald Burns Postmodern poet and critic Gerald Burns bridges the gap between the experimental writing of the 19th-century Romantics and the early 20th-century modernists.As Burns says, many of the pieces collected here "enact what they do?to save time." Only one is a formal lecture. Three began as book reviews and the rest are prose records of investigations... more » that are informed by a much richer historical sense?a broader horizon of thinking and writing?than is usually found in modern writing on meaning, reference, and language as the medium of art.« less