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Of Discourse

Of Discourse

Goodland, Giles

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1874400873
ISBN13: 9781874400875
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 28 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

OF DISCOURSE is a novel-length hybrid of prose and verse, structured along a trajectory determined by syntax, as if function-words could have their own thesaurus, each word generating meaning while remaining in itself opaque.


Giles Goodland comments: What is BE? If we start to break the word open, make a list of its uses, constituents, inflections, what do we find? For years, while I worked for the Oxford English Dictionary, I kept a list of examples of function words in use. Not just BE, but prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and a few verbs that did not suggest much in the way of a specific action. Anything that seemed to lack a semantic aspect, or in which the function of the word was more important than its meaning. After I had assembled an almost unmanageably large file of phrases and sentences, both from external sources and from my own writings, I started to assemble 'poems' from them....

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