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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.