Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Prior to Meaning 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 avant-garde & modernism studies General Editors Marjorie Perloff Rainer Rumold Consulting Editors Peter Fenves Stephen Foster Chritine Froula Franỗoise Lionnet Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Robert von Hallberg 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Prior to Meaning The Protosemantic and Poetics c Northwestern University Press Evanston, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Illinois 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois - Copyright © by Northwestern University Press Published All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America --- (cloth) --- (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCaffery, Steve Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery p cm.—(Avant-garde and modernism studies) Includes bibliographical references and index --- (alk paper)— --- (pbk : alk paper) Canadian poetry—th century—History and criticism— Theory, etc American poetry—th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc criticism Poetics Experimental poetry—History and English language—Semantics I Title Semantics II Series . '.—dc The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 .- Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Schlage Geld aus jedem Fehler Wittgenstein Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Contents List of Illustrations, ix Acknowledgments, xi Introduction, xv Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy, Zarathustran ’Pataphysics, Blaser’s Deleuzean Folds, Charles Olson’s Art of Language: The Mayan Substratum of Projective Verse, Richard Bentley: The First Poststructuralist? The Recension of Paradise Lost, Johnson and Wittgenstein: Some Correlations and Bifurcations in the Dictionary and the Philosophical Investigations, Between Verbi Voco and Visual, Some Precursors of Grammatology: Scriptio Continua, Mercurius van Helmont, Joshua Steele, Peter Walkden Fogg, and That Precarious Binary of Speech/Writing, Sade: Writing and Modernity, Temporality and the New Sentence: Phrase Propulsion in the Writing of Karen Mac Cormack, Voice in Extremis, Jackson Mac Low: Samsara in Lagado, The Scandal of Sincerity: Toward a Levinasian Poetics, Notes, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Works Cited, Index, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Illustrations Ezra Pound, page from ‘‘Canto ,’’ showing western system of numerical superscripts, Mercurius van Helmont, Alphabete vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineato, pronunciation plates of Hebrew characters, Joshua Steele, Prosodia Rationalis, prosodic notation of part of Hamlet’s soliloquy, Joshua Steele, Prosodia Rationalis, notation of silence in final bar, Alexander Melville Bell, Visible Speech, table of non-Romanic characters with corresponding spoken sounds, Peter Walkden Fogg, Elementa Anglicana: or, The Principles of English Grammar, wordless music and its verbal source, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Tom Phillips, A Humument, monochrome reproduction of original polychrome, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 10 of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 349 of 363 and witchcraft, n Cobbing, Bob, , , Cockerham, Henry, English Dictionaire, Cohen, Herman, Cohen, Keith, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, , , n, n Collier, Jeremy, compilator, conatus, Conley, Tom, – Conte, Joseph, Courtenay, Baudoin de, on zaum, n Cowley, Abraham, ‘‘Pindaric Ode on the Thirty Fourth Chapter of Isaiah,’’ Crane, Hart, Creech, Thomas, translation of Lucretius, n Creeley, Robert, , , Critchley, Simon, , , n on Torah, n Croll, Morris, Crystal, David, Curtius, Ernst, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, n cut-up See Burroughs, William Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Damisch, Hubert, n Davidson, Michael, n de Beauvoir, Simone See Beauvoir, Simone de Debord, Guy, de Certeau, Michel See Certeau, Michel de deconsctruction, – de Courtenay, Baudoin See Courtenay, Baudoin de Dee, John, n Dekker, Thomas, Lanthorne and Candel-Light, n Deleuze, Gilles, , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n, n affective reading, on Bacon, n Fold, , , , , , , n, n on Hjelmslev, on the Other, n pornography, n proper names, n Sade’s language, Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari, xv, xvii, , , , , , , Anti-Oedipus, clinamen, xviii face, n, n Delgarno, George, n De Maria, Robert, , Democritus, xvii, Demosthenes, Deneef, Leigh, Depero, Fortunato, ‘‘verbalizzazione abstratta,’’ n De Quincy, Thomas, , , n, n, n dérive, Derrida, Jacques, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n See also differance; grammatology ‘‘At this very moment in this work here I am,’’ n ‘‘Double Session,’’ n Drucker on, Grammatology, , , n logocentrism, , ‘‘My Chances/Mes Chances,’’ n ‘‘Ulysses Gramophone,’’ n Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 350 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 ‘‘Violence and Metaphysics,’’ n voice, n de Sade, Marquis See Sade, Marquis de de Saussure, Ferdinand See Saussure, Ferdinand de Descartes, René, , , , n Desprez, détournement, defined, n d’Holbach, Baron, dialects Johnson on, – recording of, Diderot, Denis, n Letter to the Blind, n Didier, Béatrice, n differance, xxi, , – and Gertrude Stein, n dissipative structures, xv, xvii, xxiii, , , , defined, xviii Divoire, Fernand, Doesburg, Theo Van See Van Doesburg, Theo Donatus, Donne, John, ‘‘A Valediction of my Name in the Window,’’ Dowling, William, on Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Drucker, Johanna on Derrida, on grammatology, Dryden, John, Ducasse, Isadore See Lautréamont, Comte de (pseu of Isadore Ducasse) Duchamp, Marcel, n ‘‘Large Glass,’’ n, n ready-mades, Duclos, Dufrờne, Franỗois, Index Bob Cobbing on, cri-rythmes, – as ‘‘Prelinguism,’’ Duncan, Robert, , , n, n on Finnegans Wake, n DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, n Durand, Régis, , Dutton, Paul, Easthope, Antony, Eberhart, Richard, Eco, Umberto, , , n on dictionaries and encyclopedias, n on labyrinths, n on the reader, n egregore, Eliot, T S., The Waste Land, , n Elledge, Scott, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, ‘‘central man,’’ Empson, William, Engels, Friedrich See Marx, Karl Epicurus, xvii, xx, Letter to Herodotus, Sade and, – Eshleman, Clayton, n ethics Lacanian, , n Levinasian, –, – ‘‘poethics,’’ n Evreinov, Nikolai, In the Stage-Wings of the Soul, n Fafa See Tommasini, Vittorio Osvaldo (Fafa) Fauchereau, Serge, n Fencott, Clive, Fénelon, Abbé, ‘‘Lettre l’Académie,’’ n Fenollosa, Ernest, , Fenton, Elijah, Life of Milton, , 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 351 of 363 Ferenczi, Finas, Lucette, xvi La Crue, –, Fiumara, Gemma, Flaubert, Gustave, , Fogg, Peter Walkden, xvii, Elementa Anglicana, monad-fold in, xxi ‘‘wordless music,’’ xvii described, – fold, xvii, xxi, , n as aemulatio, n defined, as invagination, as ‘pataphysical, n footnotes, – See also Bentley, Richard Foucault, Michel, , , , , n on Sadism, n Four Horsemen, Franz-Passow, Freud, Sigmund, , , n Freytag-Loringhoven, Baroness Else von, n Fussell, Paul, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Gagnon, Madeline, n Gance, Abel, Gassendi, Pierre, Gautier, Leopold, Gelb, I J., A Study of Writing: The Foundations of Grammatology, n Genette, Gerard, genotext See Kristeva, Julia Gibbs, Robert, Gil, José, Ginsburg, Allen, n Glanville, Joseph, n glyphs, Mayan, –, n, n See also Olson, Charles G.O.D (‘‘Governor of Diversity’’), Samuel Johnson as, Godzich, Wlad See Kittay, Jeffrey, and Wlad Godzich Goethe, J W von, botanical theories, Goldsmith, Kenneth Fidget, n No ..–.., n Goldsmith, Steven, Gove, Philip, –, , n Grammaticus, Galfridus, Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum, grammatology, xxi–ii, – and deconstruction, – as ‘‘fundamentology,’’ Gray’s-Inn Journal, ‘‘Plan of an English Dictionary,’’ n Greisch, Jean, Greville, Fulke, Remains, textual discrepancies in, n Griffiths, Bill, Grose, Francis, Scoundrel’s Dictionary, n Guattari, Félix, , , , n See also Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari on sound poetry, Guro, Elena, ‘‘Finland,’’ n Guyotat, Pierre, Eden, Eden, Eden, –, n Gysin, Brion, , , n Hadewijch of Anvers, n Hallett, Garth, Hanna, Ralph, Harris, James, Hermes, n Harris, Wilson, Ascent to Omai, Harryman, Carla, ‘‘For She,’’ Hausmann, Raoul, , , , n See also optophonetic poem Hayley, Wiliam, xvii, Head, Richard, English Rogue, n Heath, Stephen, Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 352 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, , , , , n compared to Sade, n hegemonikon, , n Heidegger, Martin, , , , n, n, n, n Helmont, Mercurius van, , n Alphabeti vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineato, , n described, – monad-fold in, xxi pronunciation plates in, Helvétius, Heraclitus, Herder, Gottfried W., Higgins, Dick, –n ‘‘intermedia,’’ n Hill, Christopher, n Hjelmslev, Louis, n Deleuze on, and Sade, Hobbes, Thomas, , , on breath, n Hollier, Denis, Holmes, Richard, n Homer, homophone in Bentley, , in Brisset, –, documented by Luria, n example of folding, xxi in Roussel, , in scriptio continua, – Hooker, Thomas, , Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), n See also Bentley, Richard Ars Poetica, Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno, , , n Howe, Susan, n Huelsenbeck, Richard, , n Hume, Alexander, Orthographie and Index Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, n Hume, David, , Husserl, Edmund, ablaufsphanomene, hypnon, xviii hyponoia, ideogram, Chinese, illustrated, Pound’s use of, – Iliazd (pseu of Ilia Zdhanevich), Easter Island, Iser, Wolfgang, Isaac the Blind, n Isou, Isadore, , ‘‘Manifesto of New Lettriste Poetry,’’ n ‘‘New Letteric Alphabet,’’ , n Jabès, Edmond, , , Jakobson, Roman, , , Zaumnaya gniga, n James, William, , Jameson, Fredric, on footnotes, Janco, Marcel, Jarry, Alfred, xv, xxi, , , , n See also ‘Pataphysics Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll, , and Sade, n Jebb, R C., Jerome, Saint, – and per cola et commata, Jgjgjgjg, Johnson, Barbara, n Johnson, Ronald, xvi, –, and Blake, n and clinamen, xx and lexicography, and Paradise Lost, xxii, 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 353 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 and protosemantic, xx Radi os, , Johnson, Samuel, xvi, xx, , , , , n anonymous writings by, n on Bentley, as decentered author, Dictionary of the English Language, xvi, , – and Burke’s Reflections, citationality in – and clinamen, xx contemporary writers in, n contending forces in, dialects, – folding in, xxi heteroglossia, Jacobite sympathies shown in, n Richardson’s opinions on, n satires on, n serialized version of, n Smith’s review of, n Tooke’s opinions on, n Johnson’s Poets, aim of Index, Journey to the Western Isles, n law-language analogy, – and lexicography, xx, Life of Richard Savage, n Lives the Poets, n modernist subject, Johnson as, – ‘‘Plan,’’ –, ‘‘Preface,’’ , –, –, , Rambler, and Tory ideology, Jolas, Eugene, n on poetic language, – Jonson, Ben, English Grammar, n Joyce, James, xxii, Finnegans Wake, , Cage’s treatments of, – Duncan on, n and scriptio continua, – Ulysses, Kafka, Franz, Kandinsky, Wassily, Kant, Immanuel, , , , Critique of Judgement, , n Critique of Pure Reason, transcendental apperception, – Khlebnikov, Velimir (Viktor), , –, See also zaum ‘‘Vremya mera mira,’’ Khulman, Quirinus, Kierkegaard, Søren, , Kircher, Athanasius, xxii Kittay, Jeffrey, and Wlad Godzich, Klintberg, Bengt af, Klossowski, Pierre, , , , n Konkrete Canticle, Konovalov, D G., n Krieger, Murray, , Kristeva, Julia, xv, , , , , , , , genotext, xv, khora, n phenotext distinguished from genotext, n ‘‘Psychoanalysis and the Polis,’’ Revolution in Poetic Language, symbolic/semiotic relation, n textual practice, theoretical subject described, Kroetsch, Robert, Kroll, R W F., n Kruchenykh, Aleksei, , , – , n, n See also zaum ‘‘Declaration of the Word as Such,’’ ‘‘Dyr bul shchyl, , n ‘‘Novye puti slova,’’ Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 354 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 labyrinth, n Lacan, Jacques, ethics, Laing, R D., Kingsley Hall Project, Language writing, Lansing, Gerrit, n Lautréamont, Comte de (pseu of Isadore Ducasse), , Lavoisier, n law-language analogy, – Le Brun, Annie, , , , , , , , , n, n, n Lecercle, Lean-Jacques, xix, , –, , , Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas, Oikema brothel, n Lee, Dennis, Leeuwenhoek, Leggot, Michelle, n Leibniz, Gottfried, xv, xvii, xviii, , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n Arte Combinatoria, n Letter to Ramond, Monadology, , , n Pacidus Philalethi, , n Response to Bayle, Theodicy, Leiris, Michel, letters, as atoms, xix See also atoms Lemaitre, Maurice, See also Lettrisme; Ultralettrisme Lettrisme, , n Levinas, Emmanuel, , , , , –, n, n Abraham compared to Ulysses, on criticism, –n ethics, –, – compared to Lacan’s n defined, Existence and Existents, n Index face, – illeity, , n ‘‘Language and Proximity,’’ , language, theory of, – Nine Talmudic Readings, – Otherwise than Being, , – photism in, n poetry, – proximity, n ‘‘Reality and its Shadow,’’ , n speech, text, as gift, – as Oral Law, – Totality and Infinity, n ‘‘Trace of the Other, , , n Lévi-Strauss, Claude, his logocentrism, Lewis, Matthew, ‘‘Monk,’’ lexicography, – Adamic myth and, by Bysshe, – early English, – by Johnson, by Poole, – Walpole’s reservations on, li, as monad, n libertine See Sade, Marquis de Lingis, Alphonso, Lionnais, Franỗois Le, n Lippard, Lucy, n Llewelyn, John, n, n Locke, John, , Lombard, Peter, Longinus, Lora-Totino, Arigo, , n Lorca, Garcia, , Lowth, Robert, n Lucretius, Titus Carus, xv, xviii, xix, xx, , , De rerum natura, xix, , –, , , , n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 355 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 early publication of, n and Sade, – Luria, A R., n Lynn, Steven, on Johnson’s Rambler, Lyotard, Jean-Franỗois, xix, xx, , , , , , , , n Libidinal Economy, Lyra, Nicolas de, Mabille, Pierre, MacBean, Alexander, Dictionary of Ancient Geography, n Mac Cormack, Karen, – and Canadian feminism, Mac Low and, Marine Snow, n Marlatt and, – perpetual motion, postcolonialism and, –, Quirks & Quillets, –, –, n Bök on, n and Husserl, phrasal propulsion in, , –, Reutersward and, .n Mackail, J W., Bentley’s Milton, – n Mac Low, Jackson, xvi, –, – , n anarchy and, – Aristotelean aspects of, ‘‘asymmetries,’’ Bakhtin and, clinamen and, xx Cowley and, diastics, defined, n compared to Das Kapital, n ‘‘false wit,’’ –, ‘‘ biblical poems,’’ methods of composition, n musical influences on, as paragram, – performance, – Pronouns, protosemantic in, xx reading strategies, – Stanzas for Iris Lezak, – Swift’s model of writing compared, systematic-chance composition, – ‘‘Vocabularies,’’ n Zen buddhist influences, –, Mallarmé, Stephane, , , , , , n Coup de dés, n Le Livre, n Mallet, David, Of Verbal Criticism, Mallock, William H See Phillips, Tom Marcel, Gabriel, Creative Fidelity, n Marinetti, Filippo, Tommaso, , , n, n ‘‘Batagglia di Adrianapoli,’’ n ‘‘Bombardamento di Adrianapoli,’’ onomatopoeia in, –, parole in libertà, , , –, n typography, Zang-tumb-tumb, Markov, Vladimir, n Marlatt, Daphne, – Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Autumn of the Patriarch, n Marshall, Thomas, n Martin, Benjamin, Martin, Henri-Jean, , , n Marvell, Andrew, n Marx, Karl, xviii, Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 356 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 clinamen, xviii dissertation, influence on Wittgenstein, n Das Kapital, n Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, n Masoudy, Hassan, – Massumi, Brian, Mauro, Tullio de, Mayali, Laurent, McCaffery, Steve, , n ‘‘Discussion Genesis Continuity,’’ n systematic Xerox disintegrations, n McGann, Jerome, theory of textuality, n ‘‘meaning-in-becoming.’’ See becoming meaning Mehlman, Jeffrey, n, n Meillet, A., Melville, Herman, Pierre, Mercken-Spaas, Godelieve, Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, , , , Merton, Thomas, Meschonic, Henri, metalepsis, Middleton, Peter, n Miller, J Hillis, Miller, Perry, Milton, John, , – See also Bentley, Richard; Johnson, Ronald Paradise Lost, – Minarelli, Enzo, n Missac, Pierre, n Moholy Nagy, Laszlo, Vision in Motion, n Molière, monad, xvii, xviii, xxi, , , –, , n atom and, n Index Baroque and, book as, n Byrd on, n fold and, as li, n nomadology and, quantum mechanics and, n Whitehead on, n monad-fold, xv, xxi Monk, Ray, – Montano, Linda, ‘‘Mitchell’s Death,’’ Morgenstern, Christian Galgenlieder, ‘‘Kroklokwafzi,’’ Morris, William, n Morrissette, Bruce, n Morton, Herbert C., Mulcaster, Richard, Elementarie, Mumford, Lewis, Technics and Civilization, n Murdoch, Patrick, Murray, Elisabeth, Murray, Lindley, n Nacal, J., Naipaul, V S., Mystic Masseur, n Nancy, Jean-Luc, , n, n Negro, Antonio, n ‘‘neo-narrative,’’ , n New Sentence See Silliman, Ron Newton, Isaac, , Four Lectures, n Principia, transverse impulse, – Nichol, bp, Martyrology, systematic Xerox disintegrations, n Nichols, Miriam, , – Nietzsche, Friedrich, –, , n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 357 of 363 on atoms, Human, All Too Human, – Thus Spake Zarathrustra, , Will to Power, Nitsch, Herman, Novalis, Olson, Charles, xvi, xxii, –, , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n Additional Prose, ‘‘Art of the Language of Mayan Glyphs,’’ ‘‘Gate and the Center,’’ , Leibniz and, n ‘‘Letter to Elaine Feinstein,’’ n Maximus Poems, , n page layout of, n Mayan Letters, –, n, n Proprioception, , and Diderot, n and Evreinov, n Projective Verse, –, –, , , n Viking Fund Application, , – O’Neill, Ynez Violé, n Ong, Walter, n, n, n optophone, n optophonetic poem, , , Oulipo, n Ovid (Publius Ovidus Naso), Tristia, n Owens, Craig, n Owens, Joseph, n Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Pane, Gina, Paracelsus, n paragram, xv, xvi, xxi defined, paralanguage, parenklisis, Parkes, Malcolm B., , , –, n Parmenides, n parole in libertà (words in freedom) See Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Parr, Samuel, particle poetics, xviii Pascal, Blaise, ‘Pataphysics, –, defined, Heidegger and, n Sade and, Patchen, Kenneth, Sleepers Awake, scriptio continuum in, Paulson, William, Pei, Mario, n per cola et commata, , – Blake and, described, example of, Mallarmé and, Saint Jerome’s use of, Silliman and, Perelman, Bob, –, n Philips, Ambrose, ‘‘Proposals for Printing an English Dictionary,’’ n Phillips, Edward, Life of Milton, Phillips, Tom, xvi, , , –, n– ‘‘column-edge’’ poem, n Dante’s Inferno, translated and illustrated by, xxii Humument, –, and clinamen, xx editions, n and Johnson, and lexicography, and Mallock’s A Human Document, xxii and protosemantic, xx TV Dante, n phrase propulsion, , – Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 358 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Picard, Jeremie, Picard, Max, n Pierssens, Michel, , Piranesi, Giovani Battista, Plato, Apology, – Cratylus, , n khora, n logocentrism, Phaedo, n Philebus, n Republic, Timaeus, , n Politian, Angelo, Pompius, Pontanus, , n Poole, Joshua, English Parnassus, , Pope, Alexander, n Dunciad, n ‘‘Epistle on Man,’’ n Pordage, Samuel, Mundorum Explicatio, its influence on Milton, n pornography, Delueze on, n Porush, David, xxii Pound, Ezra, xxii, , , Cantos, , , , , n, n Chinese ideograms, – ‘‘I Gather the Limbs of Osiris,’’ n periplum, Prelinguism, Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers, xv, xviii, , , , n, n bifurcation theory, n, n dissipative structures, xv, xvii, xxiii, , , , , n defined, xviii hypnon, xviii print shop, th century English, Index Prior, Matthew, Projective Verse See Olson, Charles proper-name effect in Johnson’s Dictionary, – as Law-Name of Father, proprioception, defined, protosemantic, xv, xxiii, in Levinas, protozaum See zaum Psichiatria Democratica, punctuation history of, n of poems, n Puttenham, George, Arte of English Poesie, n Quatermain, Peter, n Queneau, Raymond, n Quintilian, , Rabelais, Radcliffe, Anne, Rajchman, John, , n Raleigh, Sir Walter, Rapaport, Herman, on Milton, Rasula, Jed, n Ray, Man, ‘‘Lautgedicht,’’ Rescher, Nicholas, Reddick, Allen, , Retallack, Joan, n Reutersward, Carl Friedrik, Prix Nobel, n Richardson, Charles, on Johnson’s Dictionary, n Richardson, J and J., , n Ricoeur, Paul, n Robbins, Jill, Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature, n Robinson, Kit, 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 359 of 363 Roethke, Theodore, Rolt, Richard, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, n Rosenzweig, Franz, , , , n Rossi-Landi, Feruccio, , criticism of Wittgenstein, – Roudiez, Leon, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, , logocentrism in, Roussel, Raymond, –, , , , n Heidegger and, n homophones and, ‘‘How I Wrote Certain of My Books,’’ Impressions d’Afrique, paranomasia in, Rubra, Parva Gallina, Ruskin, John, Russolo, Luigi, Art of Noise, n Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, Venus in Furs, n Sade, Marquis de, xv, xviii, –, n ambivalence, n architecture and, , n Bentley compared, blasphemy in, n Byron compared, n contemporary inventions, n Correspondance inedité, n Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, Ecrits Politiques de Oxtiern, n Epicurus and, – feminism and, n freemasonry and, n imprisonment, Juliette, –, , , , , , n Justine, –, , , n, n Lacan on, n language and, n last will and testament, n libertine and accounting, compared to Annual Register, concept of, xviii, – and Greeks, and history, and nature as processual, – and reasoning, Sade as, n sexual configurations of, – as social clinamen, as socioethical clinamen, xx–xi types of, – Lucretius and, – materialist ecology described, – Nature, as explicator of, as perpetual motion, Oedipal configurations in, n One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom, –, , , , Philosophy in the Bedroom, and ‘pataphysics, – and politics, n and pornogaphy, Republicanism in, Rousseau compared, – self, concept of, – theater, relation to, n and Third Reich, n Union des arts ou les ruses de l’amour, writing as perpetual motion, – Sade’s two kinds, – Sainte-Phalle, Niki de, n Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 360 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Saussure, Ferdinand de, xv, –, , , , , , , , n logocentrism in, paragrams, investigations into, xv, Scheerbart, Paul, ‘‘Kikakoku,’’ Schelling, Andrew, n Schiller, Friedrich, Schlegel, Friedrich von, on syllables, Scholem, Gershom, n Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Schwitters, Kurt, , Scoffici, Ardengo, Scott and Liddell, Greek-English Lexicon, scriptio continua, – described, in Finnegans Wake, – history of, , homophony in, – ‘‘Timotheus papyrus,’’ n Seneca, Sephariel, n serial poem See Blaser, Robin Serres, Michel, xx, , , n, n on origin of geometry, Servius, Seville, Isadore of, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of, Shakespeare, William, , Shapiro, David, n Shapiro, Karl, Shaw, Gregory, – Shklovsky, Viktor, on zaum, n Sidney, Sir Philip, , , Silesius, Angelus, Cherubinic Wanderer, n Silliman, Ron, –, n Index Horizon, n Ketjak, , n New Sentence, , defined, defined by Ball, n and haiku-renga, n Tjanting, Sishkov, Skelton, John, ‘‘Speak Parrot,’’ n Smith, Adam, n Snell, Richard, Socrates See Plato Sodality of the Friends of Crime, Sollers, Philippe H, n on Sade’s narrative structures, sound poem, – audio-poèm and, – Bataille and, body and, as community, graphic notation of, – group, – ‘‘maggidism’’ and, mysticism and, paleotechnic, , – as paralanguage, poésie phonetique as, poésie sonore as, , sacrificial and, simultaneous, , –, n spontaneity in, – radio broadcasting and, n tape recorder and, as virtual semantics, xenoglossia and, Sozialistiches Patientenkollectiv, Spanos, William, Spenser, Edmund, –, – Faerie Queene IV.., Spicer, Jack, , , Spinoza, Benedict de, , n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 361 of 363 Starnes, de Witt T., and Gertrude E Noyes, Starobinski, Jean, Steele, Joshua, Boswell on, Prosodia Rationalis, , – notation of Hamlet in, notation of silence in, Stein, Gertrude, , , , n, n differance and, n Stein, Ludwig, Leibniz und Spinoza, n Stengers, Isabelle See Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers Stevens, Wallace, Stewart, Susan, , , , n Stramm, August, Sue, Eugène, Mystères de Paris, n Sukenick, Ron, n Sutherland, W Mark, ‘‘Scratch,’’ n Swartzkogler, Swedenborg, Emanuel, n Sweet, Harry, Primer in Phonetics, – Swift, Jonathan, Battle of the Books, Gulliver’s Travels, – Swinburne, Algernon Charles, syzygy, xxi, , defined, , Szasz, Thomas, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Tacitus, Talmud, texts See also Torah Aggadah, Halakhah, Tarn, Nathaniel, n Taylor, John, Works, n Temple, Sir William, Teresa of Avila, Saint, n, n Textor, Latin, Thesaurus Poeticus, Thales of Miletus, Thom, René, xxi, n Thomson, J Eric, n Todorov, Vladislav, , n Tommasini, Vittorio Osvaldo (Fafa), n Torah See also Talmud Critchley on, n as face, as revelation, Toland, John, , , n Tomkins, J M S., n Tooke, John Horn, on Johnson’s Dictionary, n Tory, Geofroy, Champ Fleury, n Tozzer, Alfred, Maya Grammar, transcendental apperception, – ‘‘transcreation,’’ n ‘‘transrational language.’’ See zaum Tzara, Tristan, , , , ‘‘Negerlieder,’’ n ‘‘Note sur l’art nègre,’’ n Poèmes Negres, Ultralettrisme, –, , See also Lettrisme Enlightenment precedents of, n Upton, Lawrence, Valéry, Paul, , n Van Doesburg, Theo ‘‘letter sound images,’’ n ‘‘phono-gymnastics,’’ Vaneigem, Raoul, , Van Helmont, Mercurius See Helmont, Mercurius van Vedic Hymns, ventriloquism, Verne, Jules, Index 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 362 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Vesalius, Andreas, Viénet, René, n Vienna Aktion group, Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire de larchitecture franỗaise, , n Virgil, voice, – Voloshinov, V N., , n Wah, Fred, Pictograms from the Interior of B.C, n Wallin, J E Wallace, Walpole, Horace, Warburton, Wiliam, xii, Watt, Ian, Watten, Barrett, Watts, Isaac, Weaver, Mike, , n Webster, Charles, n Webster, Noah, n Commendious Dictionary of the English Language, n Wendt, Larry, , – Sound Poems for an Era of Reduced Expectation, n Whiston, William, Memoirs, n Whitehead, Alfred North, , , n on monads, n White, Lynn, n Whitman, Walt, and zaum, n Williams, William Carlos, Wimsatt, William K., Wittgenstein, Ludwig, , , , – , , –, , , , , n Index meaning, concept of, meaning, metaphorical, n names, Philosophical Investigations, , , –, –, – pragmatic language, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, , , n Wörterbuch für Volkschulen, Zettel, , n Wolman, Gil J., ‘‘mégapneumes,’’ , Wooton, William, ‘‘word imp,’’ ‘‘wordless music.’’ See Fogg, Peter Walkden ‘‘words in freedom,’’ (parole in libertà) See Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Yates, Frances, Art of Memory, n zaum, , , –, n, n, n, n Courtenay on, n genealogy of, invention of, n mysticism and, protozaum, Shklovsky on, n Zdanevich, Ilia See Iliazd (pseu of Ilia Zdhanevich) Zekowsky, Arlene See Berne, Stanley, and Arlene Zekowski Zukofsky, Celia, n Zukofsky, Louis, Zweig, Ellen, n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 363 of 363 Illustration Credits Page Ezra Pound From ‘‘Canto .’’ In The Cantos(–) New Directions, Page Mercurius van Helmont Alphabete vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineato Reproduced in Johanna Drucker The Alphabetic Labyrinth London: Thames and Hudson, Page Page Joshua Steele Prosodia Rationalis London, Page Page Joshua Steele Prosodia Rationalis Page Page Alexander Melville Bell Visible Speech London: Simpkin, Marshall, Page Peter Walkden Fogg Elementa Anglicana: or, The Principles of English Grammar vols Stockport, – Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Page Tom Phillips, A Humument London: Thames and Hudson, ... / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Prior to Meaning The Protosemantic and Poetics c Northwestern University Press Evanston, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Illinois 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO. .. Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCaffery, Steve Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery p cm.—(Avant-garde and modernism studies) Includes bibliographical references and index ---... I’ve termed the protosemantic Three other conceptual threads are presidential on this plane: the clinamen, the monad-fold, and the dissipative structure Like Kristeva’s genotext, the protosemantic