TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGann,Jerome J.
TI  - Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism 
SN  - 9780691221465
U1  - 821/.91091 20
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Art and literature
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Book design
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Printing
KW  - Visual poetry
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aesthetic movement
KW  - Alienation effect
KW  - Bibliographical styles
KW  - Burning Deck (publisher)
KW  - Calligraphy
KW  - Chiswick Press
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Dialogical model
KW  - Didacticism
KW  - Epic theatre
KW  - Falsity
KW  - Found texts
KW  - Golden type
KW  - Heuristics
KW  - Iconic condition
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Journal writing
KW  - Kelmscott Press
KW  - Literary history
KW  - Objectivism
KW  - Oulipo group
KW  - Papermaking
KW  - Postmodern works
KW  - Referentiality
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Temporalities
KW  - Transcendentalism
KW  - Vorticism
KW  - White Rabbit Press
KW  - Word frequencies
KW  - Yeats, Lily
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson --; PART ONE: A Revolution of the Word --; 1 "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris --; 2 Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries) --; PART TWO: Dichtung und Wahrheit --; 3 The Truth of Poetry. An Argument --; 4 The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue) --; Afterword --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible language" of modernism. McGann then offers a philosophical investigation into the relation of knowledge and truth to this kind of imaginative writing. Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work with older traditions of so-called Adamic language. McGann argues that in modernist writing, philosophical nominalism emerges as a key aesthetic point of departure. Such writing thus develops a pragmatic and performative "answer to Plato" in the matter of poetry's relation to truth and philosophy
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