{"product_id":"the-language-of-inquiry-9780520217003","title":"The Language of Inquiry","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eLyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem \u003ci\u003eMy Life,\u003c\/i\u003e a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentral to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential \"Two Stein Talks,\" as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings. \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lyn Hejinian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48294587039995,"sku":"9780520217003","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780520217003_3145dc7f-4d37-4a09-87ba-df7c6324691d.jpg?v=1772481493","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-language-of-inquiry-9780520217003","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}