Poetry. Sianne Ngai's writings use, among others, devices of analogy and repetition to investigate philosophical questions about language. The pressure she puts on her conventional use of devices yield a third, and somewhat more enigmatic, trick of language, which I would call migration. Like birds of formal gestures, Ngai's poetry and prose patterns, through distancing, question about valued categories of knowledge. Relationships of science, language,...
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