In the Place of Language

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In the Place of Language is written by Claudia Brodsky and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0823235289 (ISBN 10) and 9780823235285 (ISBN 13).

The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent develops a theory of the "referent" that is thus also a theory of the possibility of historical knowledge, one that.