3 6 3 f o 1 t e e h s / G N I N A E M O T R O I R P / y r e f f a C c M 9 7 3 6 Prior to Meaning 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 2 t e e h s avant-garde & modernismstudies / G N NI GeneralEditors A E M TO MarjoriePerloff R O I R P RainerRumold / y r e ConsultingEditors f f a C c M PeterFenves 9 7 3 6 StephenFoster ChritineFroula FrançoiseLionnet RobertvonHallberg 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 3 t e e h s / G N I N A E M O T R O I R P / y r e f f a C c M 9 7 3 6 Prior to Meaning The Protosemantic and Poetics              c Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 4 t e e h s / G N I N A E M NorthwesternUniversityPress O T Evanston,Illinois- R O I R P Copyright©byNorthwesternUniversityPress. / y Published.Allrightsreserved. r fe PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica f Ca  c M 9 37 ---(cloth) 6 ---(paper) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData McCaffery,Steve Priortomeaning:theprotosemanticandpoetics/ SteveMcCaffery. p.cm.—(Avant-gardeandmodernismstudies) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ---(alk.paper)— ---(pbk.:alk.paper) .Canadianpoetry—thcentury—Historyandcriticism— Theory,etc. .Americanpoetry—thcentury—Historyand criticism—Theory,etc. .Experimentalpoetry—Historyand criticism. .Englishlanguage—Semantics. .Semantics. .Poetics. I.Title. II.Series. .. '.—dc  Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements oftheAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials, .-. 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 5 t e e h s / G N I N A E M SchlageGeldausjedemFehler. O T Wittgenstein R O I R P / y r e f f a C c M 9 7 3 6 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 6 t e e h s / G N I N A E M O T R O I R P / y r e f f a C c M 9 7 3 6 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 7 t e e h s Contents / G N I N A E M Listof Illustrations,ix O T Acknowledgments,xi R O I R P Introduction,xv / ry  Insufficiencyof TheorytoPoeticalEconomy, e f f a  Zarathustran’Pataphysics, C c M 9  Blaser’sDeleuzeanFolds, 7 3 6  CharlesOlson’sArtof Language: TheMayanSubstratumof ProjectiveVerse,  RichardBentley:TheFirstPoststructuralist? TheRecensionofParadiseLost,  JohnsonandWittgenstein:SomeCorrelationsandBifurcations intheDictionaryandthePhilosophicalInvestigations,  BetweenVerbiVocoandVisual,SomePrecursorsofGrammatology: ScriptioContinua,MercuriusvanHelmont,JoshuaSteele, PeterWalkdenFogg,andThatPrecariousBinaryof Speech/Writing,  Sade:WritingandModernity,  TemporalityandtheNewSentence: PhrasePropulsionintheWritingof KarenMacCormack,  VoiceinExtremis,  JacksonMacLow:SamsarainLagado,  TheScandalofSincerity:TowardaLevinasianPoetics, Notes, WorksCited, 2 Index, 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 8 t e e h s / G N I N A E M O T R O I R P / y r e f f a C c M 9 7 3 6 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 9 t e e h s Illustrations / G N I N A E M . EzraPound,pagefrom‘‘Canto,’’showingwesternsystemof O T numericalsuperscripts, R O RI . MercuriusvanHelmont,Alphabeteverenaturalishebraicibrevissima P / delineato,pronunciationplatesof Hebrewcharacters, y r e . JoshuaSteele,ProsodiaRationalis,prosodicnotationofpartof f f a Hamlet’ssoliloquy, C c M 9 . JoshuaSteele,ProsodiaRationalis,notationofsilenceinfinalbar, 7 3 6 . AlexanderMelvilleBell,VisibleSpeech,tableofnon-Romanic characterswithcorrespondingspokensounds, . PeterWalkdenFogg,ElementaAnglicana:or,ThePrinciplesof English Grammar,wordlessmusicanditsverbalsource, . TomPhillips,AHumument,monochromereproductionoforiginal polychrome, 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T 3 6 3 f o 0 1 t e e h s / G N I N A E M O T R O I R P / y r e f f a C c M 9 7 3 6 2 0 : 6 1 8 . 8 . 1 0 0 2 g n e s T