Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Prior to Meaning 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 avant-garde & modernism studies General Editors Marjorie Perloff Rainer Rumold Consulting Editors Peter Fenves Stephen Foster Chritine Froula Franỗoise Lionnet Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Robert von Hallberg 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Prior to Meaning The Protosemantic and Poetics  c Northwestern University Press Evanston, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Illinois 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois - Copyright ©  by Northwestern University Press Published  All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America            --- (cloth)  --- (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCaffery, Steve Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery p cm.—(Avant-garde and modernism studies) Includes bibliographical references and index  --- (alk paper)—  --- (pbk : alk paper)  Canadian poetry—th century—History and criticism— Theory, etc  American poetry—th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc criticism  Poetics  Experimental poetry—History and  English language—Semantics I Title  Semantics II Series .   '.—dc  The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 .- Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Schlage Geld aus jedem Fehler Wittgenstein Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Contents List of Illustrations, ix Acknowledgments, xi Introduction, xv  Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy,   Zarathustran ’Pataphysics,   Blaser’s Deleuzean Folds,   Charles Olson’s Art of Language: The Mayan Substratum of Projective Verse,   Richard Bentley: The First Poststructuralist? The  Recension of Paradise Lost,   Johnson and Wittgenstein: Some Correlations and Bifurcations in the Dictionary and the Philosophical Investigations,   Between Verbi Voco and Visual, Some Precursors of Grammatology: Scriptio Continua, Mercurius van Helmont, Joshua Steele, Peter Walkden Fogg, and That Precarious Binary of Speech/Writing,   Sade: Writing and Modernity,   Temporality and the New Sentence: Phrase Propulsion in the Writing of Karen Mac Cormack,   Voice in Extremis,   Jackson Mac Low: Samsara in Lagado,   The Scandal of Sincerity: Toward a Levinasian Poetics,  Notes,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Works Cited,  Index,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Illustrations  Ezra Pound, page  from ‘‘Canto ,’’ showing western system of numerical superscripts,   Mercurius van Helmont, Alphabete vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineato, pronunciation plates of Hebrew characters,   Joshua Steele, Prosodia Rationalis, prosodic notation of part of Hamlet’s soliloquy,   Joshua Steele, Prosodia Rationalis, notation of silence in final bar,   Alexander Melville Bell, Visible Speech, table of non-Romanic characters with corresponding spoken sounds,   Peter Walkden Fogg, Elementa Anglicana: or, The Principles of English Grammar, wordless music and its verbal source,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02  Tom Phillips, A Humument, monochrome reproduction of original polychrome,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 10 of 363 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 349 of 363 and witchcraft, n Cobbing, Bob, , ,  Cockerham, Henry, English Dictionaire,  Cohen, Herman,  Cohen, Keith,  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, , , n, n Collier, Jeremy,  compilator,  conatus,  Conley, Tom, – Conte, Joseph,  Courtenay, Baudoin de,  on zaum, n Cowley, Abraham, ‘‘Pindaric Ode on the Thirty Fourth Chapter of Isaiah,’’  Crane, Hart,  Creech, Thomas, translation of Lucretius, n Creeley, Robert, , ,  Critchley, Simon, , , n on Torah, n Croll, Morris,  Crystal, David,  Curtius, Ernst,  European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, n cut-up See Burroughs, William Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Damisch, Hubert, n Davidson, Michael, n de Beauvoir, Simone See Beauvoir, Simone de Debord, Guy,  de Certeau, Michel See Certeau, Michel de deconsctruction, – de Courtenay, Baudoin See Courtenay, Baudoin de Dee, John, n Dekker, Thomas, Lanthorne and Candel-Light, n Deleuze, Gilles, , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n, n affective reading,  on Bacon, n Fold, , , , , , , n, n on Hjelmslev,  on the Other, n pornography, n proper names, n Sade’s language,  Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari, xv, xvii, , , , , , ,  Anti-Oedipus,  clinamen, xviii face, n, n Delgarno, George, n De Maria, Robert, ,  Democritus, xvii,  Demosthenes,  Deneef, Leigh,  Depero, Fortunato, ‘‘verbalizzazione abstratta,’’ n De Quincy, Thomas, , , n, n, n dérive,  Derrida, Jacques, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n See also differance; grammatology ‘‘At this very moment in this work here I am,’’ n ‘‘Double Session,’’ n Drucker on,  Grammatology, , , n logocentrism, ,  ‘‘My Chances/Mes Chances,’’ n ‘‘Ulysses Gramophone,’’ n Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 350 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 ‘‘Violence and Metaphysics,’’ n voice, n de Sade, Marquis See Sade, Marquis de de Saussure, Ferdinand See Saussure, Ferdinand de Descartes, René, , , , n Desprez,  détournement, defined, n d’Holbach, Baron,  dialects Johnson on, – recording of,  Diderot, Denis, n Letter to the Blind, n Didier, Béatrice, n differance, xxi, , – and Gertrude Stein, n dissipative structures, xv, xvii, xxiii, , , ,  defined, xviii Divoire, Fernand,  Doesburg, Theo Van See Van Doesburg, Theo Donatus,  Donne, John, ‘‘A Valediction of my Name in the Window,’’  Dowling, William, on Boswell’s Life of Johnson,  Drucker, Johanna on Derrida,  on grammatology,  Dryden, John,  Ducasse, Isadore See Lautréamont, Comte de (pseu of Isadore Ducasse) Duchamp, Marcel, n ‘‘Large Glass,’’ n, n ready-mades,  Duclos, Dufrờne, Franỗois, Index Bob Cobbing on,  cri-rythmes, – as ‘‘Prelinguism,’’  Duncan, Robert, , , n, n on Finnegans Wake, n DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, n Durand, Régis, ,  Dutton, Paul,  Easthope, Antony,  Eberhart, Richard,  Eco, Umberto, , , n on dictionaries and encyclopedias, n on labyrinths, n on the reader, n egregore,  Eliot, T S., The Waste Land, , n Elledge, Scott,  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, ‘‘central man,’’  Empson, William,  Engels, Friedrich See Marx, Karl Epicurus, xvii, xx,  Letter to Herodotus,  Sade and, – Eshleman, Clayton, n ethics Lacanian, , n Levinasian, –, – ‘‘poethics,’’ n Evreinov, Nikolai, In the Stage-Wings of the Soul, n Fafa See Tommasini, Vittorio Osvaldo (Fafa) Fauchereau, Serge, n Fencott, Clive,  Fénelon, Abbé, ‘‘Lettre l’Académie,’’ n Fenollosa, Ernest, ,  Fenton, Elijah, Life of Milton, ,  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 351 of 363 Ferenczi,  Finas, Lucette, xvi La Crue, –,  Fiumara, Gemma,  Flaubert, Gustave, ,  Fogg, Peter Walkden, xvii,  Elementa Anglicana,  monad-fold in, xxi ‘‘wordless music,’’ xvii described, – fold, xvii, xxi, , n as aemulatio, n defined,  as invagination,  as ‘pataphysical, n footnotes, – See also Bentley, Richard Foucault, Michel, , , , , n on Sadism, n Four Horsemen,  Franz-Passow,  Freud, Sigmund, , , n Freytag-Loringhoven, Baroness Else von, n Fussell, Paul,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Gagnon, Madeline, n Gance, Abel,  Gassendi, Pierre,  Gautier, Leopold,  Gelb, I J., A Study of Writing: The Foundations of Grammatology, n Genette, Gerard,  genotext See Kristeva, Julia Gibbs, Robert,  Gil, José,  Ginsburg, Allen, n Glanville, Joseph, n glyphs, Mayan, –, n, n See also Olson, Charles G.O.D (‘‘Governor of Diversity’’), Samuel Johnson as,  Godzich, Wlad See Kittay, Jeffrey, and Wlad Godzich Goethe, J W von, botanical theories,  Goldsmith, Kenneth Fidget, n No  ..–.., n Goldsmith, Steven,  Gove, Philip, –, , n Grammaticus, Galfridus, Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum,  grammatology, xxi–ii, – and deconstruction, – as ‘‘fundamentology,’’  Gray’s-Inn Journal, ‘‘Plan of an English Dictionary,’’ n Greisch, Jean,  Greville, Fulke, Remains, textual discrepancies in, n Griffiths, Bill,  Grose, Francis, Scoundrel’s Dictionary, n Guattari, Félix, , , , n See also Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari on sound poetry,  Guro, Elena, ‘‘Finland,’’ n Guyotat, Pierre, Eden, Eden, Eden, –, n Gysin, Brion, , , n Hadewijch of Anvers, n Hallett, Garth,  Hanna, Ralph,  Harris, James, Hermes, n Harris, Wilson, Ascent to Omai,  Harryman, Carla, ‘‘For She,’’  Hausmann, Raoul, , , , n See also optophonetic poem Hayley, Wiliam, xvii,  Head, Richard, English Rogue, n Heath, Stephen,  Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 352 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, , , , , n compared to Sade, n hegemonikon, , n Heidegger, Martin, , , , n, n, n, n Helmont, Mercurius van, , n Alphabeti vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineato, , n described, – monad-fold in, xxi pronunciation plates in,  Helvétius,  Heraclitus,  Herder, Gottfried W.,  Higgins, Dick, –n ‘‘intermedia,’’ n Hill, Christopher, n Hjelmslev, Louis, n Deleuze on,  and Sade,  Hobbes, Thomas, , ,  on breath, n Hollier, Denis,  Holmes, Richard, n Homer,  homophone in Bentley, ,  in Brisset, –,  documented by Luria, n example of folding, xxi in Roussel, ,  in scriptio continua, – Hooker, Thomas, ,  Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), n See also Bentley, Richard Ars Poetica,  Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno, , , n Howe, Susan, n Huelsenbeck, Richard, , n Hume, Alexander, Orthographie and  Index Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, n Hume, David, ,  Husserl, Edmund, ablaufsphanomene,  hypnon, xviii hyponoia,  ideogram, Chinese, illustrated,  Pound’s use of, – Iliazd (pseu of Ilia Zdhanevich), Easter Island,  Iser, Wolfgang,  Isaac the Blind, n Isou, Isadore, ,  ‘‘Manifesto of New Lettriste Poetry,’’ n ‘‘New Letteric Alphabet,’’ , n Jabès, Edmond, , ,  Jakobson, Roman, , ,  Zaumnaya gniga, n James, William, ,  Jameson, Fredric, on footnotes,  Janco, Marcel,  Jarry, Alfred, xv, xxi, , , , n See also ‘Pataphysics Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll, ,  and Sade, n Jebb, R C.,  Jerome, Saint, – and per cola et commata,  Jgjgjgjg,  Johnson, Barbara, n Johnson, Ronald, xvi, –,  and Blake, n and clinamen, xx and lexicography,  and Paradise Lost, xxii,  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 353 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 and protosemantic, xx Radi os, ,  Johnson, Samuel, xvi, xx, , , , , n anonymous writings by, n on Bentley,  as decentered author,  Dictionary of the English Language, xvi, , – and Burke’s Reflections,  citationality in – and clinamen, xx contemporary writers in, n contending forces in,  dialects, – folding in, xxi heteroglossia,  Jacobite sympathies shown in, n Richardson’s opinions on, n satires on, n serialized version of, n Smith’s review of, n Tooke’s opinions on, n Johnson’s Poets, aim of Index,  Journey to the Western Isles, n law-language analogy, – and lexicography, xx,  Life of Richard Savage, n Lives the Poets, n modernist subject, Johnson as, – ‘‘Plan,’’ –,  ‘‘Preface,’’ , –, –, ,  Rambler,  and Tory ideology,  Jolas, Eugene, n on poetic language, – Jonson, Ben, English Grammar, n Joyce, James, xxii,  Finnegans Wake, , Cage’s treatments of, – Duncan on, n and scriptio continua, – Ulysses,  Kafka, Franz,  Kandinsky, Wassily,  Kant, Immanuel, , , ,  Critique of Judgement, , n Critique of Pure Reason,  transcendental apperception, – Khlebnikov, Velimir (Viktor), , –,  See also zaum ‘‘Vremya mera mira,’’  Khulman, Quirinus,  Kierkegaard, Søren, ,  Kircher, Athanasius, xxii Kittay, Jeffrey, and Wlad Godzich,  Klintberg, Bengt af,  Klossowski, Pierre, , , , n Konkrete Canticle,  Konovalov, D G., n Krieger, Murray, ,  Kristeva, Julia, xv, , , , , , , ,  genotext, xv,  khora, n phenotext distinguished from genotext, n ‘‘Psychoanalysis and the Polis,’’  Revolution in Poetic Language,  symbolic/semiotic relation, n textual practice,  theoretical subject described,  Kroetsch, Robert,  Kroll, R W F., n Kruchenykh, Aleksei, , , – , n, n See also zaum ‘‘Declaration of the Word as Such,’’  ‘‘Dyr bul shchyl, , n ‘‘Novye puti slova,’’  Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 354 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 labyrinth, n Lacan, Jacques,  ethics,  Laing, R D., Kingsley Hall Project,  Language writing,  Lansing, Gerrit, n Lautréamont, Comte de (pseu of Isadore Ducasse), ,  Lavoisier, n law-language analogy, – Le Brun, Annie, , , , , , , , , n, n, n Lecercle, Lean-Jacques, xix, , –, , ,  Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas,  Oikema brothel, n Lee, Dennis,  Leeuwenhoek,  Leggot, Michelle, n Leibniz, Gottfried, xv, xvii, xviii, , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n Arte Combinatoria, n Letter to Ramond,  Monadology, , , n Pacidus Philalethi, , n Response to Bayle,  Theodicy,  Leiris, Michel,  letters, as atoms, xix See also atoms Lemaitre, Maurice,  See also Lettrisme; Ultralettrisme Lettrisme, , n Levinas, Emmanuel, , , , , –, n, n Abraham compared to Ulysses,  on criticism, –n ethics, –, – compared to Lacan’s n defined,  Existence and Existents, n  Index face, – illeity, , n ‘‘Language and Proximity,’’ ,  language, theory of, – Nine Talmudic Readings, – Otherwise than Being, , – photism in, n poetry, – proximity, n ‘‘Reality and its Shadow,’’ , n speech,  text, as gift, – as Oral Law, – Totality and Infinity, n ‘‘Trace of the Other, , , n Lévi-Strauss, Claude, his logocentrism,  Lewis, Matthew, ‘‘Monk,’’  lexicography, – Adamic myth and,  by Bysshe, – early English, – by Johnson,  by Poole, – Walpole’s reservations on,  li, as monad, n libertine See Sade, Marquis de Lingis, Alphonso,  Lionnais, Franỗois Le, n Lippard, Lucy, n Llewelyn, John, n, n Locke, John, ,  Lombard, Peter,  Longinus,  Lora-Totino, Arigo, , n Lorca, Garcia, ,  Lowth, Robert, n Lucretius, Titus Carus, xv, xviii, xix, xx, , ,  De rerum natura, xix, , –, , , , n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 355 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 early publication of, n and Sade, – Luria, A R., n Lynn, Steven, on Johnson’s Rambler, Lyotard, Jean-Franỗois, xix, xx, , , , , , , , n Libidinal Economy,  Lyra, Nicolas de,  Mabille, Pierre,  MacBean, Alexander,  Dictionary of Ancient Geography, n Mac Cormack, Karen, – and Canadian feminism,  Mac Low and,  Marine Snow, n Marlatt and, – perpetual motion,  postcolonialism and, –, Quirks & Quillets, –, –, n Bök on, n and Husserl,  phrasal propulsion in, , –,  Reutersward and, .n Mackail, J W., Bentley’s Milton, – n Mac Low, Jackson, xvi, –, – , n anarchy and, – Aristotelean aspects of,  ‘‘asymmetries,’’  Bakhtin and,  clinamen and, xx Cowley and,  diastics, defined, n compared to Das Kapital, n ‘‘false wit,’’ –,  ‘‘ biblical poems,’’  methods of composition, n musical influences on,  as paragram, – performance, – Pronouns,  protosemantic in, xx reading strategies, – Stanzas for Iris Lezak, – Swift’s model of writing compared,  systematic-chance composition, – ‘‘Vocabularies,’’ n Zen buddhist influences, –,  Mallarmé, Stephane, , , , , , n Coup de dés, n Le Livre, n Mallet, David, Of Verbal Criticism,  Mallock, William H See Phillips, Tom Marcel, Gabriel, Creative Fidelity, n Marinetti, Filippo, Tommaso, , , n, n ‘‘Batagglia di Adrianapoli,’’ n ‘‘Bombardamento di Adrianapoli,’’  onomatopoeia in, –,  parole in libertà, , , –, n typography,  Zang-tumb-tumb,  Markov, Vladimir, n Marlatt, Daphne, – Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Autumn of the Patriarch, n Marshall, Thomas, n Martin, Benjamin,  Martin, Henri-Jean, , , n Marvell, Andrew, n Marx, Karl, xviii,  Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 356 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 clinamen, xviii dissertation,  influence on Wittgenstein, n Das Kapital, n Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, n Masoudy, Hassan, – Massumi, Brian,  Mauro, Tullio de,  Mayali, Laurent,  McCaffery, Steve, , n ‘‘Discussion Genesis Continuity,’’ n systematic Xerox disintegrations, n McGann, Jerome,  theory of textuality, n ‘‘meaning-in-becoming.’’ See becoming meaning Mehlman, Jeffrey, n, n Meillet, A.,  Melville, Herman, Pierre,  Mercken-Spaas, Godelieve,  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, , , ,  Merton, Thomas,  Meschonic, Henri,  metalepsis,  Middleton, Peter, n Miller, J Hillis,  Miller, Perry,  Milton, John, , – See also Bentley, Richard; Johnson, Ronald Paradise Lost, – Minarelli, Enzo, n Missac, Pierre, n Moholy Nagy, Laszlo,  Vision in Motion, n Molière,  monad, xvii, xviii, xxi, , , –, , n atom and, n  Index Baroque and,  book as, n Byrd on, n fold and,  as li, n nomadology and,  quantum mechanics and, n Whitehead on, n monad-fold, xv, xxi Monk, Ray, – Montano, Linda, ‘‘Mitchell’s Death,’’  Morgenstern, Christian Galgenlieder,  ‘‘Kroklokwafzi,’’  Morris, William, n Morrissette, Bruce, n Morton, Herbert C.,  Mulcaster, Richard, Elementarie,  Mumford, Lewis, Technics and Civilization, n Murdoch, Patrick,  Murray, Elisabeth,  Murray, Lindley, n Nacal, J.,  Naipaul, V S., Mystic Masseur, n Nancy, Jean-Luc, , n, n Negro, Antonio, n ‘‘neo-narrative,’’ , n New Sentence See Silliman, Ron Newton, Isaac, ,  Four Lectures, n Principia,  transverse impulse, – Nichol, bp,  Martyrology,  systematic Xerox disintegrations, n Nichols, Miriam, , – Nietzsche, Friedrich, –, , n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 357 of 363 on atoms,  Human, All Too Human, – Thus Spake Zarathrustra, ,  Will to Power,  Nitsch, Herman,  Novalis,  Olson, Charles, xvi, xxii, –, , , , , , , , , n, n, n, n Additional Prose,  ‘‘Art of the Language of Mayan Glyphs,’’  ‘‘Gate and the Center,’’ ,  Leibniz and, n ‘‘Letter to Elaine Feinstein,’’ n Maximus Poems, , n page layout of, n Mayan Letters, –, n, n Proprioception, , and Diderot, n and Evreinov, n Projective Verse, –, –, , , n Viking Fund Application, , – O’Neill, Ynez Violé, n Ong, Walter, n, n, n optophone, n optophonetic poem, , ,  Oulipo, n Ovid (Publius Ovidus Naso), Tristia, n Owens, Craig, n Owens, Joseph, n Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Pane, Gina,  Paracelsus, n paragram, xv, xvi, xxi defined,  paralanguage,  parenklisis,  Parkes, Malcolm B., , , –, n Parmenides, n parole in libertà (words in freedom) See Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Parr, Samuel,  particle poetics, xviii Pascal, Blaise,  ‘Pataphysics, –,  defined,  Heidegger and, n Sade and,  Patchen, Kenneth, Sleepers Awake, scriptio continuum in,  Paulson, William,  Pei, Mario, n per cola et commata, , – Blake and,  described,  example of,  Mallarmé and,  Saint Jerome’s use of,  Silliman and,  Perelman, Bob, –, n Philips, Ambrose, ‘‘Proposals for Printing an English Dictionary,’’ n Phillips, Edward, Life of Milton,  Phillips, Tom, xvi, , , –, n– ‘‘column-edge’’ poem, n Dante’s Inferno, translated and illustrated by, xxii Humument, –,  and clinamen, xx editions, n and Johnson,  and lexicography,  and Mallock’s A Human Document, xxii and protosemantic, xx TV Dante, n phrase propulsion, , – Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 358 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Picard, Jeremie,  Picard, Max, n Pierssens, Michel, ,  Piranesi, Giovani Battista,  Plato,  Apology, – Cratylus, , n khora, n logocentrism,  Phaedo, n Philebus, n Republic,  Timaeus, , n Politian, Angelo,  Pompius,  Pontanus, , n Poole, Joshua, English Parnassus, ,  Pope, Alexander, n Dunciad, n ‘‘Epistle on Man,’’ n Pordage, Samuel, Mundorum Explicatio, its influence on Milton, n pornography, Delueze on, n Porush, David, xxii Pound, Ezra, xxii, , ,  Cantos, , , , , n, n Chinese ideograms, – ‘‘I Gather the Limbs of Osiris,’’ n periplum,  Prelinguism,  Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers, xv, xviii, , , , n, n bifurcation theory, n, n dissipative structures, xv, xvii, xxiii, , , , , n defined, xviii hypnon, xviii print shop, th century English,   Index Prior, Matthew,  Projective Verse See Olson, Charles proper-name effect in Johnson’s Dictionary, – as Law-Name of Father,  proprioception,  defined,  protosemantic, xv, xxiii,  in Levinas,  protozaum See zaum Psichiatria Democratica,  punctuation history of, n of poems, n Puttenham, George, Arte of English Poesie, n Quatermain, Peter, n Queneau, Raymond, n Quintilian, ,  Rabelais,  Radcliffe, Anne,  Rajchman, John, , n Raleigh, Sir Walter,  Rapaport, Herman, on Milton,  Rasula, Jed, n Ray, Man, ‘‘Lautgedicht,’’  Rescher, Nicholas,  Reddick, Allen, ,  Retallack, Joan, n Reutersward, Carl Friedrik, Prix Nobel, n Richardson, Charles, on Johnson’s Dictionary, n Richardson, J and J., , n Ricoeur, Paul, n Robbins, Jill,  Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature, n Robinson, Kit,  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 359 of 363 Roethke, Theodore,  Rolt, Richard, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, n Rosenzweig, Franz, , , , n Rossi-Landi, Feruccio, ,  criticism of Wittgenstein, – Roudiez, Leon,  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, ,  logocentrism in,  Roussel, Raymond, –, , , , n Heidegger and, n homophones and,  ‘‘How I Wrote Certain of My Books,’’  Impressions d’Afrique,  paranomasia in,  Rubra, Parva Gallina,  Ruskin, John,  Russolo, Luigi, Art of Noise, n Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, Venus in Furs, n Sade, Marquis de, xv, xviii, –, n ambivalence, n architecture and, , n Bentley compared,  blasphemy in, n Byron compared, n contemporary inventions, n Correspondance inedité, n Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man,  Ecrits Politiques de Oxtiern, n Epicurus and, – feminism and, n freemasonry and, n imprisonment,  Juliette, –, , , , , , n Justine, –, , , n, n Lacan on, n language and, n last will and testament, n libertine and accounting,  compared to Annual Register,  concept of, xviii, – and Greeks,  and history,  and nature as processual, – and reasoning,  Sade as, n sexual configurations of, – as social clinamen,  as socioethical clinamen, xx–xi types of, – Lucretius and, – materialist ecology described, –  Nature, as explicator of,  as perpetual motion,  Oedipal configurations in, n One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom, –, , , ,  Philosophy in the Bedroom,  and ‘pataphysics, – and politics, n and pornogaphy,  Republicanism in,  Rousseau compared, – self, concept of, – theater, relation to, n and Third Reich, n Union des arts ou les ruses de l’amour,  writing as perpetual motion, – Sade’s two kinds, – Sainte-Phalle, Niki de, n Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 360 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Saussure, Ferdinand de, xv, –, , , , , , , , n logocentrism in,  paragrams, investigations into, xv,  Scheerbart, Paul, ‘‘Kikakoku,’’  Schelling, Andrew, n Schiller, Friedrich,  Schlegel, Friedrich von, on syllables,  Scholem, Gershom, n Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,  Schwitters, Kurt, ,  Scoffici, Ardengo,  Scott and Liddell, Greek-English Lexicon,  scriptio continua, – described,  in Finnegans Wake, – history of, ,  homophony in, – ‘‘Timotheus papyrus,’’ n Seneca,  Sephariel, n serial poem See Blaser, Robin Serres, Michel, xx, , , n, n on origin of geometry,  Servius,  Seville, Isadore of,  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of,  Shakespeare, William, ,  Shapiro, David, n Shapiro, Karl,  Shaw, Gregory, – Shklovsky, Viktor, on zaum, n Sidney, Sir Philip, , ,  Silesius, Angelus, Cherubinic Wanderer, n Silliman, Ron, –, n  Index Horizon, n Ketjak, , n New Sentence, ,  defined,  defined by Ball, n and haiku-renga, n Tjanting,  Sishkov,  Skelton, John, ‘‘Speak Parrot,’’ n Smith, Adam, n Snell, Richard,  Socrates See Plato Sodality of the Friends of Crime,  Sollers, Philippe H, n on Sade’s narrative structures,  sound poem, – audio-poèm and, – Bataille and,  body and,  as community,  graphic notation of, – group, – ‘‘maggidism’’ and,  mysticism and,  paleotechnic, , – as paralanguage,  poésie phonetique as,  poésie sonore as, ,  sacrificial and,  simultaneous, , –, n spontaneity in, – radio broadcasting and, n tape recorder and,  as virtual semantics,  xenoglossia and,  Sozialistiches Patientenkollectiv,  Spanos, William,  Spenser, Edmund, –, – Faerie Queene IV..,  Spicer, Jack, , ,  Spinoza, Benedict de, , n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 361 of 363 Starnes, de Witt T., and Gertrude E Noyes,  Starobinski, Jean,  Steele, Joshua,  Boswell on,  Prosodia Rationalis, , – notation of Hamlet in,  notation of silence in,  Stein, Gertrude, , , , n, n differance and, n Stein, Ludwig, Leibniz und Spinoza, n Stengers, Isabelle See Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers Stevens, Wallace,  Stewart, Susan, , , , n Stramm, August,  Sue, Eugène, Mystères de Paris, n Sukenick, Ron, n Sutherland, W Mark, ‘‘Scratch,’’ n Swartzkogler,  Swedenborg, Emanuel, n Sweet, Harry, Primer in Phonetics, – Swift, Jonathan,  Battle of the Books,  Gulliver’s Travels, – Swinburne, Algernon Charles,  syzygy, xxi, ,  defined, ,  Szasz, Thomas,  Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Tacitus,  Talmud, texts See also Torah Aggadah,  Halakhah,  Tarn, Nathaniel, n Taylor, John, Works, n Temple, Sir William,  Teresa of Avila, Saint, n, n Textor, Latin,  Thesaurus Poeticus,  Thales of Miletus,  Thom, René, xxi, n Thomson, J Eric, n Todorov, Vladislav, , n Tommasini, Vittorio Osvaldo (Fafa), n Torah See also Talmud Critchley on, n as face,  as revelation,  Toland, John, , , n Tomkins, J M S., n Tooke, John Horn, on Johnson’s Dictionary, n Tory, Geofroy, Champ Fleury, n Tozzer, Alfred, Maya Grammar,  transcendental apperception, – ‘‘transcreation,’’ n ‘‘transrational language.’’ See zaum Tzara, Tristan, , , ,  ‘‘Negerlieder,’’ n ‘‘Note  sur l’art nègre,’’ n Poèmes Negres,  Ultralettrisme, –, ,  See also Lettrisme Enlightenment precedents of, n Upton, Lawrence,  Valéry, Paul, , n Van Doesburg, Theo ‘‘letter sound images,’’ n ‘‘phono-gymnastics,’’  Vaneigem, Raoul, ,  Van Helmont, Mercurius See Helmont, Mercurius van Vedic Hymns,  ventriloquism,  Verne, Jules,  Index  6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 362 of 363 Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Vesalius, Andreas,  Viénet, René, n Vienna Aktion group, Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire de larchitecture franỗaise, , n Virgil,  voice, – Voloshinov, V N., , n Wah, Fred, Pictograms from the Interior of B.C, n Wallin, J E Wallace,  Walpole, Horace,  Warburton, Wiliam, xii,  Watt, Ian,  Watten, Barrett,  Watts, Isaac,  Weaver, Mike, , n Webster, Charles, n Webster, Noah, n Commendious Dictionary of the English Language, n Wendt, Larry, , – Sound Poems for an Era of Reduced Expectation, n Whiston, William, Memoirs, n Whitehead, Alfred North, , , n on monads, n White, Lynn, n Whitman, Walt,  and zaum, n Williams, William Carlos,  Wimsatt, William K.,  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, , , , – , , –, , , , , n  Index meaning, concept of,  meaning, metaphorical, n names,  Philosophical Investigations, , , –, –, – pragmatic language,  Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, , , n Wörterbuch für Volkschulen,  Zettel, , n Wolman, Gil J., ‘‘mégapneumes,’’ ,  Wooton, William,  ‘‘word imp,’’  ‘‘wordless music.’’ See Fogg, Peter Walkden ‘‘words in freedom,’’ (parole in libertà) See Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Yates, Frances, Art of Memory, n zaum, , , –, n, n, n, n Courtenay on, n genealogy of,  invention of, n mysticism and,  protozaum,  Shklovsky on, n Zdanevich, Ilia See Iliazd (pseu of Ilia Zdhanevich) Zekowsky, Arlene See Berne, Stanley, and Arlene Zekowski Zukofsky, Celia, n Zukofsky, Louis,  Zweig, Ellen, n 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet 363 of 363 Illustration Credits Page  Ezra Pound From ‘‘Canto .’’ In The Cantos(–) New Directions,  Page  Mercurius van Helmont Alphabete vere naturalis hebraici brevissima delineato  Reproduced in Johanna Drucker The Alphabetic Labyrinth London: Thames and Hudson,  Page  Page  Joshua Steele Prosodia Rationalis London,  Page  Page  Joshua Steele Prosodia Rationalis Page  Page  Alexander Melville Bell Visible Speech London: Simpkin, Marshall,  Page  Peter Walkden Fogg Elementa Anglicana: or, The Principles of English Grammar  vols Stockport, – Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Page  Tom Phillips, A Humument London: Thames and Hudson,  ... / PRIOR TO MEANING / sheet of 363 Prior to Meaning The Protosemantic and Poetics  c Northwestern University Press Evanston, Tseng 2001.8.8 16:02 Illinois 6379 McCaffery / PRIOR TO. .. Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCaffery, Steve Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery p cm.—(Avant-garde and modernism studies) Includes bibliographical references and index  ---... I’ve termed the protosemantic Three other conceptual threads are presidential on this plane: the clinamen, the monad-fold, and the dissipative structure Like Kristeva’s genotext, the protosemantic