Item #20850 Language as Gesture: Essays In Poetry. Richard P. Blackmur.
Language as Gesture: Essays In Poetry
Language as Gesture: Essays In Poetry
Language as Gesture: Essays In Poetry

Language as Gesture: Essays In Poetry

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The price-clipped dust jacket has handling wear with closed tears on the upper front edge. 8.25 inches tall; 440 pages. 

21 essays in the craft and elucidation of modern poetry

Richard P. Blackmur explores the intricate relationship between language and meaning, focusing on how words function not just as tools for communication but as expressions of deeper human gestures and emotions. 

Blackmur, an influential American critic and theorist, is known for his focus on the subtleties of language, and in this work, he applies a critical eye to the ways in which language transcends mere communication and becomes a form of human expression. The text examines the theory that language is not just a system of signs or symbols but also a kind of physical gesture that conveys more than the surface level of meaning.



Subjects: Semiotics, Gesture, Language, Communication, Meaning, Human Expression, Literary Theory, Philosophy of Language, Literary Criticism.


Item #20850

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