In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent

by Claudia Brodsky

The placein the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The referentBrodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent develops...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230007
• ISBN13: 9780823230006
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"