The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics

Watten, Barrett

ISBN 10: 0819566098 / ISBN 13: 9780819566096

Edité par Wesleyan University Press, 2003

VERY GOOD/NO DJ Former library book xxxii 430 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for usual library treatments. Gray wraps with black lettering on cover and spine in very good condition. Binding firm. N° de réf. du vendeur 035707

Synopsis :

As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and art, Fordism and Detroit techno - each proposed as exemplary of the social construction of aesthetic and cultural forms. His book is a full-scale attempt to place the linguistic turn of critical theory and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language by the avant-garde since the Russian Formalists in relation to the cultural politics of postcolonial studies, feminism and race theory. As such, it will provide a crucial revisionist perspective within modernist and avant-garde studies.

À propos de l'auteur: Barrett Watten is Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University and the author of Total Syntax (1985), essays on avant-garde poetics. He was the editor of This (1971-82) and co-editor of Poetics Journal (1982-98), Recent collections of his literary work include Frame (1971-1990) (1997), Bad History (1998), and, forthcoming, Progress/Under Erasure.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Constructivist Moment: From Material ...
Éditeur : Wesleyan University Press
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : Softcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket
Edition : 1st Ed.