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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461183503321
• Autore: Watten Barrett
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Middletown, : Wesleyan University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-10941-7; 9786613109415; 0-8195-6978-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (782 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/1; 810.91
• Soggetti: 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; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century - Soviet Union; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century; Russian literature - History and criticism; Comparative literature - American and Russian; Comparative literature - Russian and American; American literature - Russian influences; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Provocative cultural readings of avant-garde literature and art.