Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality

by Craig Dworkin

Book Overview

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022674356X
• ISBN13: 9780226743561
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"