Getting It
Ashbery and the Avant-Garde of Everyday Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4883888 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Cottom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684790 |
| OpenAlex | W2321552609 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE WOULD HAVE IT that anomia is a common condition, so common in fact as to be almost unremarkable. Consider the expression I lost as used in circumstances that make it clear we are not to any fungible thing. A popular catchphrase in the United States at least since the early 1980s, I lost is said of an extremely upsetting event and the response occasioned by it. But what is it one claims to have lost? Although it may have been derived from expressions such as I lost my temper and I lost control, I lost is more than a reformulation of them; it in this instance does not simply refer to one's own being, possessions, or circumstances. Although it partakes of all these, loosely referring to them, as we might say, it insists on turning beyond them. It is something else: a coherence as precisely unnameable as it is presumptively familiar and vital to whatever it is we call communication. It is like the
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Avant garde · Everyday life · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Law · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Media, Communication, and Education · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |