Barrett Watten
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barrett Watten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barrett |
| FAMILY NAME | Watten |
| SIGNATURE | WATTEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | English, Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language Writing and Louis Zukofsky’s “A”-24: Three Interviews
focuses on the twenty-fourth and final movement of Louis Zukofsky's "A". "A"-24 was composed by musician Celia Thaew-Zukofsky and given to her husband on the occasion of his sixty-fourth birthday in January 1968. Therefore, it should be considered as one of those numerous "found objects" which only became part of Zukofsky's "poem of a life" through a process of quotation. Over two hundred pages or so, the score redistributes quotations taken from…
Liberation and the historical present: Gertrude Stein @ Zero Hour
Presentism and Periodization in Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing
Presentism and Periodization in Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing Barrett Watten (bio) In this essay, I contrast three movements of contemporary art practice involving language—Language writing, conceptual art, and the recently emerged movement of conceptual writing—in terms of how each formally and historically encodes concepts of presentism and periodization. While each of these movements constructs a version of "the pres…
Diasporic Avant-Gardes
Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and
The Turn to Language and the 1960s
The Poetics of New Meaning
Research Article| December 01 2001 The Poetics of New Meaning Barrett Watten Barrett Watten Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.12.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barrett Watten; The Poetics of New Meaning. Qui Parle 1 December 2001; 12 (2): 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.12.2.1 Download citation file: Z…
New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary: From Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low
This essay charts development in American modernist and postmodern poetics of use of preestablished, nonauthorial for literary composition. While Coleridgean concept of diction is normative and hierarchical in its separation of appropriate and inappropriate lexicons for literature, is both open-ended and critical, allowing new meaning of jargons, dialects, idioms, and technical senses into poetry. The emergence of may be discerned in a historicis…
Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko und Ilya Kabakov
Postmodern Culture - Volume 3, Number 2, January 1993
Radical poetics
Aesthetic Tendency and the Politics of Poetry: A Manifesto
Aesthetic Tendency and the Politics of Poetry: A Manifesto
The Turn to Language and the 1960s
New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary: From Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low
This essay charts development in American modernist and postmodern poetics of use of preestablished, nonauthorial for literary composition. While Coleridgean concept of diction is normative and hierarchical in its separation of appropriate and inappropriate lexicons for literature, is both open-ended and critical, allowing new meaning of jargons, dialects, idioms, and technical senses into poetry. The emergence of may be discerned in a historicis…
Aesthetic Tendency and the Politics of Poetry: A Manifesto
Radical poetics
Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko und Ilya Kabakov
Postmodern Culture - Volume 3, Number 2, January 1993
New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary: From Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low
This essay charts development in American modernist and postmodern poetics of use of preestablished, nonauthorial for literary composition. While Coleridgean concept of diction is normative and hierarchical in its separation of appropriate and inappropriate lexicons for literature, is both open-ended and critical, allowing new meaning of jargons, dialects, idioms, and technical senses into poetry. The emergence of may be discerned in a historicis…
The Poetics of New Meaning
Research Article| December 01 2001 The Poetics of New Meaning Barrett Watten Barrett Watten Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.12.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barrett Watten; The Poetics of New Meaning. Qui Parle 1 December 2001; 12 (2): 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.12.2.1 Download citation file: Z…
The Turn to Language and the 1960s
Diasporic Avant-Gardes
Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and
Presentism and Periodization in Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing
Presentism and Periodization in Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing Barrett Watten (bio) In this essay, I contrast three movements of contemporary art practice involving language—Language writing, conceptual art, and the recently emerged movement of conceptual writing—in terms of how each formally and historically encodes concepts of presentism and periodization. While each of these movements constructs a version of "the pres…
Language Writing and Louis Zukofsky’s “A”-24: Three Interviews
focuses on the twenty-fourth and final movement of Louis Zukofsky's "A". "A"-24 was composed by musician Celia Thaew-Zukofsky and given to her husband on the occasion of his sixty-fourth birthday in January 1968. Therefore, it should be considered as one of those numerous "found objects" which only became part of Zukofsky's "poem of a life" through a process of quotation. Over two hundred pages or so, the score redistributes quotations taken from…
Liberation and the historical present: Gertrude Stein @ Zero Hour
Art (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Poetics (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works)