From modernism to postmodernism: American poetry and theory in the twentieth century

Introduction: Modernism's new literalism

Gertrude Stein for anyone

Making the rose red: Stein, proper names, and the critique of indeterminacy

Laura (Riding) Jackson and the New Criticism

Modernism's old literalism: Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and the objectivist critique of metaphor

Authorial inattention: Donald Davidson's literalism, Jorie Graham's materialism, and cognitive science's embodied minds.