Constructivist Moment

Name: Constructivist Moment
SKU: 9780819566102
Price: 749 SEK
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Author: Barrett Watten
ISBN: 9780819566102

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvBarrett Watten

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-07-18
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt748 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor364
FörlagWesleyan University Press
ISBN9780819566102

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"The Constructivist Moment will be an important contribution to our knowledge of modernism and to the avant-garde, and it will be a key document in our understanding of contemporary experimental language arts." - Michael Davidson, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego; "Barrett Watten's magisterial analyses of the intersections among social forces and aesthetic forms, his powerful fusion of theory and practice as a poet-critic, create a bridge between cultural studies and poetics. This demanding, incisive, necessary book writes about, and for, the radical transformation of culture." - Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of Drafts 1-38, Toll