{"product_id":"radium-of-the-word-craig-dworkin-9780226743424","title":"Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality","description":"With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, \u003ci\u003eRadium of the Word\u003c\/i\u003e argues that a study of the \u003ci\u003eform\u003c\/i\u003e of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations, Craig Dworkin traces hidden networks across the surface of texts, examining how typography, and even individual letters and marks of punctuation, can reveal patterns that are significant without being symbolic-fully meaningful without communicating any preordained message. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eRadium of the Word\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from Mina Loy's poem for Gertrude Stein, which hails her as the Madame \"Curie \/ of the laboratory \/ of vocabulary.\" In this spirit, Dworkin considers prose as a dynamic literary form, characterized by experimentation. Dworkin draws on examples from writers as diverse as Lyn Hejinian, William Faulkner, and Joseph Roth. He takes up the status of the proper name in Modernism, with examples from Stein, Loy, and Guillaume Apollinaire, and he offers in-depth analyses of individual authors from the counter-canon of the avant-garde, including P. Inman, Russell Atkins, N. H. Pritchard, and Andy Warhol. The result is an inspiring intervention in contemporary poetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Dworkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022674342X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226743424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Craig Dworkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942595166463,"sku":"9780226743424","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_11823232-0bd5-4a05-95b5-3077200e4ce3.jpg?v=1681493261","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radium-of-the-word-craig-dworkin-9780226743424","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}