Jerome J. McGann
Social Values and Poetic Acts
Harvard University Press, 1988.
A second crucial feature
of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E approach
to poetry and writing
centers in its preoccupation
with nonsense,
unmeaning,
and fragmentation.
These writers practice
language experiments
which generate
and promote such conditions.
As readers,
their approach is archaeological.
Their reviews
and critical comments
on poetry
display little concern
with "Interpretation";
rather, they elucidate
as it were the behavior,
the manners,
the way of life
that various kinds of writings
perform and live.