| Description |
xx, 618 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 584-607) and index. |
| Contents |
Night song of the fish / Christian Morgenstern -- Conditions / Gertrude Stein -- Canzone rumorista / Fortunato Depero -- Caffe concerto : alfabeto a sorpresa / Francesco Cangiullo -- Golfo estivo / Francesco Cangiullo -- Letterklankbeelden poem / I. K. Bonset -- Punctuation poem / Jan Nepomucen Miller -- Change of all / A. N. Chicherin -- Finnegans wake / James Joyce -- Voks / A. Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. -- Revolution of the word dictionary / Eugene Jolas -- Short introduction to the word / Harry Crosby -- Readies / Bob Brown -- Scheme for physical improvement of writers' medium / Marius Lyle -- Inner language / Justinus Kerner -- Workshop / Eugene Jolas -- How the names are changed on the peyote journey / Ramon Medina Silva -- Chirologia or the natural language of the hand / John Bulwer -- Of an alphabet upon the fingers / George Dalgarno -- Canting vocabulary / Richard Head and Francis Kirkman -- Erotism / Anonymous -- Me and my girl / Lupino Lane -- Slang in America / Walt Whitman -- Tales in Boontling / Edna L. Sanders -- Characteristics of negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Harlem jive / Zora Neale Hurston -- Dialectic criminal / Christopher Dewdney -- Pronunciation machine / Erasmus Darwin -- Oral gymnastics / Alexander Melville Bell -- Birds / Aristophanes -- Expression / Anonymous -- Kikakoku! / Paul Scheerbart -- Grosse lalula / Christian Morgenstern -- In / Gertrude Stein -- Carry / Gertrude Stein -- Karawane / Hugo Ball -- Onomatopea rumorista macchina tipografica / Giacomo Balla -- Canzone di Maggio / Giacomo Balla -- Poeme a crier et a danser / Pierre Albert-Birot. |
| Subject |
Imaginary languages.
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Literature, Experimental.
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| Added Author |
Rasula, Jed.
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McCaffery, Steve.
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| ISBN |
026218186X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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