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What key texts, names, and signators “underwrite the grand design” (GW, 272)? To what extent is Ground Work underwritten?1 This paper proposes to take a few soundings and probes into the groundwork of Duncan’s last omnibus volume to try to begin answering these questions.
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Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illus. John Tenniel (New York: Macmillan, 1920), 143.
Gérard de Nerval, Œvres Complètes, ed. Jean Guillaume and Claude Pichois, 2 vols. (Paris: Gallimard [Bibliothèque de la Pléiade], 1984–93), 1:1158. Abbreviated as Nerval.
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems, ed. Frank Kermode (1922; repr., London: Penguin, 1998), 69.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, The Ghosts of Modernity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996), 67.
Michael Davidson, “Marginality in the Margins: Robert Duncan’s Textual Politics,” in Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 176.
Stéphane Mallarmé, Œvres Complètes, ed. Henri Mondor (Paris: Gallimard [Bibliothèque de la Pléiade], 1945), 1437.
Jacques Derrida, Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 7.
Norman Finkelstein, “Late Duncan: From Poetry to Scripture,” Twentieth-Century Literature 51, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 357.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, trans. C.F. MacIntyre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961), 12.
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Oudart, C. (2011). Genreading and Underwriting (in) Robert Duncan’s Ground Work. In: Maynard, J. (eds) (Re:)Working the Ground. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119932_10
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