Progress toward New Sentimental Educations: How Contextual and Constructivist Poetics Reframe Issues of Distribution
This article looks at how Barrett Watten’s poem Progress relates to its audience, and to its sociocultural, economic and political contexts. Written in 1982-83 at the tail end of the Reagan recession, the poem is a long reflection on what it means to produce culture in a hostile neoliberal context,...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut des Amériques
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| Series: | IdeAs |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/2009 |