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Aragon, Louis, 33, 36, 190–192, 210
Arnold, David, 76, 103, 203n29, 203n30, 220n2, 221n5
Ashbery, John, x, 7, 15, 30, 46; and The Tennis Court Oath, 76–80; 102
Back, Rachel Tzvia, 145
Baker, J. Robert, 199n4, 209n59
Barthes, Roland, 2, 4–7; on structuralism, 30, 31, 32; 33; 38, 93, 103, 104, 133, 146
Beach, Christopher, 120, 223n19
Benjamin, Walter, ix, x, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10; on the Baroque, 16–18; 30, 32; on melancholy, 38–39; 40, 41, 42, 103, 118, 127, 146, 147, 184, 185, 186, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 200n12,; 205n42, 207n46, 207n47, 208n48; on allegorical form and the commodity fetish, 210n52
Bernstein, Charles, 14; on language and thinking, 22–24; 90, 101, 109–111, 115, 117, 121, 134, 145
Bloomfield, Morton W., 193
Black, Joel D., 198n1
Borkhuis, Charles, 102–103, 219n1
Breton, André, 33, 47, 105, 106, 130, 132, 133, 191
Buck-Morss, Susan, 206n45
Bürger, Peter, 37, 204n32, 204n34
Caillois, Roger, 45, 46; and the praying mantis, 48–52; 61, 214n22, 215n23, 215n24
Cézanne, Paul, 69
Coolidge, Clark, ix, x, xvi, 7, 10–11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 28, 30, 43, 67–100; Space, 70–74, 81–86; The Maintains, 86–93; Polaroid, 93–97; Quartz Hearts, 97–98; Own Face, 98–99; Smithsonian Depositions/Subject to a Film, 99; 101, 102, 135, 141, 146, 185, 188, 189, 190
Crane, Hart, 15
Creeley, Robert, 20–22, 24, 37, 201n19, 201n20
Culler, Jonathan, 207n47
Dali, Salvador, 33, 43, 45, 47–49, 52, and the praying mantis, 53–55; 57, 60, 61, 63, 64, 102, 215n26, 215n27, 215n28, 216n29
Davidson, Michael, 51
Dickens, Charles, 149; and Dombey and Son, 161–167; 170
Dorn, Edward, 15
Duncan, Robert, 20
Dworkin, Craig, ix, 7, 17, 31, 145; and “Shift,” 188–189; and “Ar,” 190–193
Eburne, Jonathan, 45, 76, 212n3
Eigner, Larry, 22
Ernst, Max, 33, 34, 36, 47, 49, 62, 133, 205n37
Fineman, Joel, 2, 7, 104, 107, 194, 199n8, 200n14, 211n56, 224n27
Fitterman, Robert, ix, 30, 185, 186, 187, 195, 196, 215, 204n31
Fletcher, Angus, ix, 2, 3, 7, 10, 30, 32–35, 36, 81, 149, 195
Foster, Edward, 93
Greenfield, Sayre, xi, 195, 206n41, 211n54
Grenier, Robert, 23–24
Halmi, N. A., 194
Hassan, Ihab, 17
Hejinian, Lyn, ix, 3, 7, 8, 37, 101, 102, 109; and Writing Is an Aid to Memory, 126–144
Higgins, Mary Rising, 12–13, 14, 28
Howe, Susan, x, xiii, 3, 7, 8, 15, 145–184; and “Arisbe,” 149–161; and “The Leisure of the Theory Class,” 161–174; and “Rückenfigur,” 174–184
Inman, Peter, 7, 11–12, 13, 14, 16, 28, 101, 102; and “nimr,” 108–118, 122, 123
Jakobson, Roman, x, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10; and the poetic function, 28, 30, 41, 85, 90, 102–107, 110, 111, 129, 134, 139; 146, 160, 161; and aphasia, 163–166; 186; on the dominant, 203n28
Jameson, Fredric, ix, x, xii, 5, 6, 7, 14, 18, 30; and allegorical transcoding, 40–42, 210n53; 64, 75, 80, 82, 94, 104, 107, 118, 130, 137, 144, 188, 196
Jappy, Antony, 103
Kiparsky, Paul, 202n27
Kim, Myung Mi, x, 7, 12, 14, 16, 28, 101; and “Measure,” 118–126; 135
Krauss, Rosalind, on photography and Surrealism, 36–37; on photography and the index, 93–94; 140
Lally, Michael, 83
Lippard, Lucy, on photomontage, 34–36
McGann, Jerome, 74, 84, 87, 92
Middleton, Peter, 9
Miller, J. Hillis, 207n47
Niedecker, Lorine, ix, x, xiii, 7, 43, 46–48; and the surrealist praying mantis, 59–66; 102
Nougé, Paul, 33
Olson, Charles, 20–23, 27, 106–109, 120, 139, 186
Oppen, George, and “From a Photograph,” 67–68; and The Materials, 92–93; 120
Owens, Craig, ix, xiv, 1–7, 28, 30, 39; on allegory, 40–42; 82, 93, 94, 104, 107, 128, 134, 135, 154, 189, 194, 204n35
Peirce, Charles Sanders, x, 7, 10, 18; and index, 19–24; and icon, 24–26; and symbol, 26–31; 127, 139, and semiotics in Pierce-Arrow, 145–184
Perelman, Bob, 120
Perloff, Marjorie, 4–5, 8–9, 14, 68, 92–93, 200n13
Piaget, Jean, 142–143
Place, Vanessa, ix, 30, 185, 187, 195, 196
Pope, Alexander, 147, 150, 156–158
Pound, Ezra, ix, xii, 18, 25, 28, 47–48, 51, 54, 55, 60, 159, 186
Pressly, William L., 49, 54, 214n18
Quilligan, Maureen, xi, 10, 30, 34, 193, 198n4, 206n41
Rasula, Jed, 198n2
Saroyan, Aram, 90
Shklovsky, Viktor, 83
Silliman, Ron, 3, 84, 90, 91, 95, 101, 103–105, 133, 186
Smithson, Robert, 4–5, 76, 81, 82, 84–85, 91, 189
Stein, Gertrude, 83, 127, 132, 136, 185, 190
Stevens, Wallace, 15
Stick, Sidra, 48
Tashjian, Dikran, 45–46, 213n11
Teskey, Gordon, 7, 194, 195, 208n47, 223n17
Tiedemann, Rolf, 38
Todorov, Tzvetan, 193
Tynianov, Juri, 81
Vanderborg, Susan, 44
Watten, Barrett, 3–5, 14, 82, 95, 101, 103; on surrealism and Charles Olson, 105–107; 109, 133; on The Constructivist Moment, 198n3
White, Hayden, 125–126
Whitman, Walt, 18–19
Wilson III, Raymond J., 209n50, 209–210n51
Williams, William Carlos, x, xiii–xiv, 8, 17, 20–21, 23, 25, 27, 60; and “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 69–70, 73; 77, 102, 103, 186
Zukofsky, Louis, xiii, 7; and the surrealist praying mantis, 43–66; 67, 83, 96