The Language of Inquiry

By: Lyn Hejinian

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Paperback | 27 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address.

Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets Literary Studies of Fiction Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Poetry

Introduction	p. 1
A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking	p. 7
Preface to Writing Is an Aid to Memory	p. 22
If Written Is Writing	p. 25
Who Is Speaking?	p. 30
The Rejection of Closure	p. 40
Language and "Paradise"	p. 59
Two Stein Talks	p. 83
Line	p. 131
Strangeness	p. 135
Materials (for Dubravka Djuric)	p. 161
Comments for Manuel Brito	p. 177
The Person and Description	p. 199
The Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem	p. 209
La Faustienne	p. 232
Three Lives	p. 268
Forms in Alterity: On Translation	p. 296
Barbarism	p. 318
Reason	p. 337
A Common Sense	p. 355
Happily	p. 383
Works Cited	p. 407
Acknowledgment of Permissions	p. 421
Index	p. 423
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