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Anticapitalism and the Poetic Function of Language
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 2, Summer 2009
- pp. 119-131
- 10.1353/esp.0.0167
- Article
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Recent attacks on Jakobson could be read in Derrida's shadow: a recapitulation in poetics of the assault on structuralism. What distinguishes these criticisms is an implicit link of a radical poetics – where clear boundaries between what is poetry and what is prose, and what is literature and what is not are broken down – to a radical politics.