logophilia

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I want to ask not so much about 'poetic' diction, abstract formulations, the logophilia Jeffrey recently blogged about, but also about the _poetics_ of the work in terms of what effect the language of the writing is having on language -- what is the language itself doing and how -- who or what does it 'speak' and what discourses does it register in, circulate, repeat, cite, etc.

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  • I want to ask not so much about 'poetic' diction, abstract formulations, the logophilia Jeffrey recently blogged about, but also about the _poetics_ of the work in terms of what effect the language of the writing is having on language -- what is the language itself doing and how -- who or what does it 'speak' and what discourses does it register in, circulate, repeat, cite, etc. —  In the Middle
 

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