{"product_id":"language-of-inquiry-book-lyn-hejinian-9780520217003","title":"The 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. But 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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50275692511505,"sku":"CIN0520217004VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50297864913169,"sku":"CIN0520217004G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521393713425,"sku":"NLS9780520217003","price":28.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520217004.jpg?v=1751261791","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/language-of-inquiry-book-lyn-hejinian-9780520217003","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}