Thanks for the extra info - just been listening to it :-) marc > Schwitters masterpoem may be seen and heard (in multiple versions) here: > http://www.ubu.com/sound/ursonate.html > > > > >> From Jabberwocky to Lettrism. >> >> Eugène Jolas. >> Transition. no. 1 (January 1948), ed. George Duthuit. pp. 104-120. >> >> The language of poetry has undergone more radical changes in the past >> fifty years than were recorded during the previous three hundred years. >> During the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, language remained >> generally static, with the exception, perhaps, of the addition of >> certain technological terms. Esthetic language, however, hardly varied >> at all from Racine to Valéry, from Marlowe to Eliot. And this despite >> the fact that all-important scientific discoveries were being made, that >> human consciousness was continually expanding, that new dimensions of >> thought cried out for new expression. Even today, it cannot be >> truthfully said that academic language has greatly altered during the >> last four or five decades, and the tragic misunderstandings resulting >> > >from persistent use of exhausted terms are only too numerous. What has > >> characterized this period, however, is the continuous metamorphosis >> which has been taking place on the periphery of academic language, where >> individuals with sensitive antennae, sensing linguistic decomposition >> and conscious of the growing trend to abolish the frontier-posts of >> words, have understood that one of the solutions to the problems of >> verbal symbolism is to be found in phonetic transformation. >> >> more... >> http://tinyurl.com/yk7hva3 >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >
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