Character Building

Peter Campbell

  • Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernity by Jerome McGann
    Princeton, 196 pp, £25.00, July 1993, ISBN 0 691 06985 9
  • Letters from the People by Lee Friedlander
    Cape, 96 pp, £75.00, August 1993, ISBN 0 224 03295 X
  • Margins and Marginality by Evelyn Tribble
    Virginia, 194 pp, $35.00, December 1993, ISBN 0 8139 1472 8

Books, too, have a body language. But does the way they are physically presented impinge in any significant way on the texts they contain? Jerome McGann reckons that the private press movement (William Morris and his followers) was an agent in the rise of Modernist poetry, and goes on to make large claims for the ability of poetry in the Modernist tradition to unknot linguistic and philosophical binds.

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