Preface: Utopian gestures

Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mitchell, W J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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References (15)

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," in Essays (New York: Franklin Watts, 1970), 303.
2. W. J. T. Mitchell, "Gesture, Sign, and Play: ASL Poetry and the Deaf Community," MLA Newsletter, Summer 1989, 13-14.
3. Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct (New York: HarperPerennial, 1995).
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Origin of Language, trans. John H. Moran (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 10.
5. Diane Brentari, A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), 1.
6. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 233.
7. W. J. T. Mitchell, "The Surplus Value of Images," chapter 4 in What Do Pictures Want? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 76-106.
8. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Pantheon, 1970), 48.
9. Sam Weber, "Citable Gestures," in Mediated Drama/Dramatized Media, ed. Eckart Voigts-Virchow (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2000).
10. Berthold Brecht, "The Author as Producer," in Reflections (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 235.
11. Susan Goldin-Meadow, Martha Wagner Alibati, and R. Breckinridge Church, "Transitions in Concept Acquisition: Using the Hand to Read the Mind," Psychological Review 100, no. 2 (1993): 279-97.
12. W. J. T. Mitchell, Blake's Composite Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977)
13. Benjamin, "Work of Art," 521
14. Weber, "Citable Gestures," 8.
15. William Blake, Jerusalem 98:28ff,