When works such as FINNEGAN'S WAKE and TENDER BUTTONS were first introduced, they went so beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were considered "unreadable", if not scandalous. The authors here take these and other examples of 20th-century avant-garde writing as a starting point to demonstrate a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present. 169 illustrations.
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When works such as FINNEGAN'S WAKE and TENDER BUTTONS were first introduced, they went so beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were considered "unreadable", if not scandalous. The authors here take these and other examples of 20th-century avant-garde writing as a starting point to demonstrate a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present. 169 illustrations.
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