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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1
1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English
Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary | 33
2 Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” | 48
3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s
Discrete Series | 77
4 Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark
Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101
5 The Random House Dictionary of the English
Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129
6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American
Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge | 161
Acknowledgments | 185
Notes | 187
Index | 239

Dictionary Poetics Toward a Radical Lexicography

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    Publisher: Fordham University Press
    Publication Date: 05/05/2020
    ISBN13: 9780823287963, 978-0823287963
    ISBN10: 0823287963
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1
    1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English
    Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary | 33
    2 Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” | 48
    3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s
    Discrete Series | 77
    4 Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark
    Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101
    5 The Random House Dictionary of the English
    Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129
    6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American
    Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge | 161
    Acknowledgments | 185
    Notes | 187
    Index | 239

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