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The Constructivist Moment

From Material Text to Cultural Poetics

By: Barrett Watten

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The Constructivist Moment

From Material Text to Cultural Poetics

By: Barrett Watten

Winner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Rene Wellek Prize (2004) 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.

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Wesleyan University Press

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081956978X

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9780819569783

Questions of Poetics

Language Writing and Consequences

By: Barrett Watten

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Questions of Poetics

Language Writing and Consequences

By: Barrett Watten

Questions of Poetics is Barrett Watten’s major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in poetics, a sustained account of its theory and practice. The present volume represents the core of Watten’s critical writing and public lecturing since the millennium, taking up the historical origins and continuity of Language writing, from its beginnings to the present. Each chapter is a theoretical inquiry into an aspect of poetics in an expanded sense—from the relation of experimental poetry to cultural logics of liberation and political economy, to questions of community and the politics of the avant-garde, to the cultural contexts where it is produced and intervenes. Each serves as a kind of thought experiment that theorizes and assesses the consequences of Language writing in expanded fields of meaning that include history, political theory, art history, and narrative theory. While all are grounded in a series of baseline questions of poetics, they also polemically address the currently turbulent debates on the politics of the avant-garde, especially Language writing, among emerging communities of poets. In manifold ways, Watten masterfully demonstrates the aesthetic and political aims of Language writing, its influence on emerging literary schools, and its present aesthetic, critical, and political horizons. Questions of Poetics will be a major point of reference in continuing debates on poetry and literary history, a critical reexamination for already familiar readers and a clearly presented introduction for new ones.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609384318

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Questions of Poetics

Language Writing and Consequences

By: Barrett Watten

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Language Writing and Consequences

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A Calendar of Scotish Saints

By: Dom Michael Barrett

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A Calendar of Scotish Saints

By: Dom Michael Barrett

Reproduction of the original: A Calendar of Scotish Saints by Dom Michael Barrett

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3752377240

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9783752377248

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New Poetics

By: Mike Barrett,Randolph Healy

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New Poetics

By: Mike Barrett,Randolph Healy

To anyone observing the current state of English-language poetry, it has become increasingly apparent that we are in a state of transition, in which poetry is moving in several directions at once (Language poetry, MFA-inspired confessional verse, New Formalism). This book is the first of its kind, gathering young poets who, working outside the established camps, develop new directions in contemporary poetry. Contributors include: Frank Rogaczewski, Brooke Bergan, Randolph Healy, Mike Barrett, Eric Elshtain, Trevor Joyce, Catherine Kasper, Karen Mac Cormack, and Peter Middleton.

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iUniverse

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0595191401

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9780595191406

Cycling Land's End to John o' Groats

LEJOG end-to-end on quiet roads and traffic-free paths

By: Richard Barrett

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Cycling Land's End to John o' Groats

LEJOG end-to-end on quiet roads and traffic-free paths

By: Richard Barrett

A guidebook to cycling LEJOG – Land’s End to John o’ Groats. Covering 1600km (1000 miles), this route along the length of Britain takes 2 weeks to complete and is suitable for cyclists with a reasonable level of fitness. The route is described from south to north in 14 stages, each between 96 and 147km (60–92 miles) in length. An abbreviated route description is given for those cycling the route north to south (JOGLE). An alternative route through Central Scotland is also described. 1:200,000 maps and profiles included for each stage GPX files for both LEJOG and JOGLE routes available for download Alternative route schedules between 10 and 18 days are provided Refreshment and accommodation information given for each stage Advice on planning and preparation

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Cicerone Press Limited

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1783628502

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The Constructivist Moment

The Constructivist Moment

Questions of Poetics

Questions of Poetics

Questions of Poetics

Questions of Poetics

A Calendar of Scotish Saints

A Calendar of Scotish Saints

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Vectors

Cycling Land's End to John o' Groats

Cycling Land's End to John o' Groats

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