In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent

by Claudia Brodsky

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The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0823230007

ISBN13:9780823230006

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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