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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.

Book details

• Full title: Constructivist Moment
• Author: Barrett Watten
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• EAN: 9780819566102
• ISBN: 0819566101
• ID: 11540725
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. May 2003

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