>The alphabet thus done & over with.
Is this the same alphabet I use, or another one? I thought we'd finished
with the end of everything kind of approaches now the huge ideological
myths of the 20th century have collapsed into the dark maw of economic
Darwinism...
>>"The invention of an idiolectical English-language poetry as a poetry of
>>the Americas involves the replacement of the national and geographically
>>centered category of English (or Spanish) poetry not with the equally
>>essential category of American poetry but with a field of potentialities, a
>>virtual America that we approach but never possess. English languages set
>>adrift from the sight/sound sensorium of the concrete experiences of the
>>English people, are at their hearts uprooted and translated: nomadic in
>>origin absolutely particular in practice. Invention in this context is not
>>a matter of choice: it is necessary as the ground we walk on."
John, I have such scepticism about this kind of stuff that nothing I say
will probably be of much use to you: but Enzensberger's Civil Wars, in
which he talks about emigration as a constant of human history, might be
worth a look. Bernstein seems to be describing a condition of language
that is hardly new, but I have to admit I haven't read the essay.
Best
Alison
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Newport VIC 3105
AUSTRALIA
home page: http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/bronte/338
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