Barrett Watten
Comments & Themes
Topics for research and critical analysis:
- Analyze in terms of poetics Watten's practice a derived from poststructuralist theory.
- Establish Barrett Watten's intentionality for dissociation.
- Consider Watten's poetry as testimony to various ideological preoccupations.
- Analyze paragraphs, disjunctive sentences, and line breaks as structural elements in Watten's poetry.
- Amnesia and memory in Under Erasure: composition and its transcendental signification as language praxis.
- Watten's use of typographic devices: encounter of inner and outer communication.