The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural PoeticsWesleyan University Press, 01.01.2012 - 364 Seiten 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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... horizon of The constructivist moment itself becomes a second point of convergence between these discontinuous examples : a constitutive moment of negativity enacted in the form of a totalizing vision . In one chapter , which seeks out ...
... horizon of language . Language is no longer to be judged in terms of its appropriateness for poetic diction ; rather , poetry will be judged by its relation to language , seen as more ca- pacious than its form . Poetry as a result ...
... horizon of unmediated expression provides the values of sensory immediacy that precede desynonymy in the first place , demanding the dis- tinctions of nature made by " men of research . " Poetic expression , in other words , overrides ...
... the work's performance . In what appears to be a reenactment of the textual project of romantic hermeneutics , the horizon of the text's " original " meaning can thus only be realized in the historical act 32 the constructivist moment.
... horizon of the textual world called up by the poem's language is fused with the outer horizon of a common understanding . Where in Coleridge's poetics the revelation of po- etic speech expresses its own passion on analogy to the ...
Inhalt
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The Bride of the Assembly Line Radical Poetics in Construction | 103 |
The Constructivist Moment From El Lissitzky to Detroit Techno | 147 |
Nonnarrative and the Construction of History An Era of Stagnation the Fall of Saigon | 197 |
Negative Examples Theories of Negativity in the AvantGarde | 238 |
PostSoviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov | 291 |
Zone The Poetics of Space in Posturban Detroit | 321 |
Notes | 349 |
Bibliography | 395 |
Index | 415 |
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