Page:Knight (1975) Past, Future and the Problem of Communication in the Work of V V Khlebnikov.djvu/129

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Chapter Seventeen:

KHLEBNIKOV'S POETRY AS ANTI-LITERACY.

It is shown how many of the distinguishing Characteristics of Khlebnikov's poetic practice constitute aspects of his struggle against the effects which the forms and conventions of literacy have upon language.