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The Constructivist Moment [electronic resource] : From Material Text to Cultural Poetics

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Watten, Barrett.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--Russian influences.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century.
Comparative literature--American and Russian.
Comparative literature--Russian and American.
Constructivism (Russian literature).
Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism--20th century--United States.
American literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century--Soviet Union.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.
Russian literature--History and criticism.
Russian literature.
Comparative literature.
Local Subjects:
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--Russian influences.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century.
Comparative literature--American and Russian.
Comparative literature--Russian and American.
Constructivism (Russian literature).
Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (782 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Provocative cultural readings of avant-garde literature and art.
Contents:
Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics; Chapter 1: New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary: From Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low; Chapter 2: The Secret History of the Equal Sign: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E between Discourse and Text; Chapter 3: The Bride of the Assembly Line: Radical Poetics in Construction; Chapter 4: The Constructivist Moment: From El Lissitzky to Detroit Techno; Chapter 5: Nonnarrative and the Construction of History: An Era of Stagnation, the Fall of Saigon
Chapter 6: Negative Examples: Theories of Negativity in the Avant-GardeChapter 7: Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov; Chapter 8: Zone: The Poetics of Space in Posturban Detroit; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
ISBN:
1-283-10941-7
9786613109415
0-8195-6978-X
OCLC:
767498259

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