The Language of Inquiry

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By Lyn Hejinian

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The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and accessible collection of essays by Lyn Hejinian, a key figure in contemporary American poetry. Spanning nearly 25 years, it explores language as a social and philosophical space, with themes of time, knowledge, consciousness, and perception. The essays engage with diverse texts and thinkers, including Sir Francis Bacon, Faust, Viktor Shlovsky, William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger, with special attention to Gertrude Stein, featuring Hejinian's notable "Two Stein Talks".
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, literary theory, philosophy of language, and American literary culture, as well as those intrigued by the Language Poets and modernist literature.

A collection of essays with the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception.

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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent contemporary American poets. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and readable collection of her essays, and its publication should be an important event for American literary culture.

Here, she brings together 20 essays written over a span of almost 25 years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, she 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.

The author's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shlovsky 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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520217003

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 December 2000

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 3 b-w photographs

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 771g

Pages: 447

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Lyn Hejinian Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Lyn Hejinian is a poet and the author of Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1996), The Cold of Poetry (1994), The Cell (1992), and My Life (1987), among other books. She has taught at several universities and colleges and was the 1993 Roberta Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.