{"product_id":"language-of-inquiry","title":"Language of Inquiry","description":"Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem \"My Life\", a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. \"The Language of Inquiry\" 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. Central 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.\nBut 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.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221877739864,"sku":"9780520217003","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780520217003_ab7e1bd4-5902-4876-bff4-9444212d7a65.jpg?v=1778558413","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/language-of-inquiry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}