Acknowledgements Introduction: modernism's new literalism 1. Gertrude Stein for anyone 2. Making the rose red: Stein, proper names and the critique of indeterminacy 3. Laura (Riding) Jackson and the New Criticism 4. Modernism's old literalism: Pound, Williams, Zukofsky and the objectivist critique of metaphor 5. Authorial inattention: Donald Davidson's literalism, Jorie Graham's Materialism and cognitive science's embodied minds Notes Index.
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