Questions of Poetics
Language Writing and Consequences
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-60938-430-2 (ISBN)
Description
This 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, Watten has developed a sustained account of its theory and practice. This volume represents the core of Watten's critical writing and public lecturing since the millennium.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
31 black & white photographs, 1 table
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-430-2 (9781609384302)
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Barrett Watten is a professor of English at Wayne State University, USA. He is the author of Total Syntax and The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, winner of the 2004 René Wellek Prize. He coedited Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and CulturalDisplacement with Carrie Noland, and A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982-1998 and Poetics Journal Digital Archivewith Lyn Hejinian. A founding member of the Language school movement of poetry, his creative works include Frame: 1971-1990, Progress/Under Erasure, Bad History, and, in progress, Zone. He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.