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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">October 3, 1948<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_California" title="Long Beach, California">Long Beach, California</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Professor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carla_Harryman" title="Carla Harryman">Carla Harryman</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Iowa" title="University of Iowa">University of Iowa</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wayne_State_University" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Barrett Watten</b> (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator associated with the <a href="/wiki/Language_poets" title="Language poets">Language poets</a>. He is a professor of English at <a href="/wiki/Wayne_State_University" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit, Michigan</a> where he teaches <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">modernism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cultural_studies" title="Cultural studies">cultural studies</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Watten was born in <a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_California" title="Long Beach, California">Long Beach, California</a> in 1948, the son of a US Navy research physicist.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a child, he moved frequently, including time in Japan and Taiwan. He graduated high school in <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a> in 1965, and briefly attended <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">AB</a> in biochemistry from <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-2016wsu_page_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2016wsu_page-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at Berkeley, he met fellow poet <a href="/wiki/Robert_Grenier_(poet)" title="Robert Grenier (poet)">Robert Grenier</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2003bio_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2003bio-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and participated in <a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_United_States_involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War" title="Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War">student protests against the Vietnam War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then attended the <a href="/wiki/Iowa_Writers%27_Workshop" title="Iowa Writers' Workshop">Iowa Writers' Workshop</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Iowa" title="University of Iowa">University of Iowa</a>, graduating in 1972 with a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">MFA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2016wsu_page_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2016wsu_page-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He finished a Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1976, he and other poets founded the reading series at the Grand Piano coffeehouse in San Francisco that ran through 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-Harley2013_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harley2013-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 2006 to 2010 ten members of the group published <i>The Grand Piano</i>, a "collective autobiography" of that period.<sup id="cite_ref-Harley2013_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harley2013-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1971, Watten and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Grenier_(poet)" title="Robert Grenier (poet)">Robert Grenier</a> began the poetry journal <i><a href="/wiki/This_(journal)" title="This (journal)">This</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Arnold2007_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arnold2007-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which he edited with Grenier for the first three years and then alone until 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-2024wsu_page_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2024wsu_page-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hampson2012_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hampson2012-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1989, he began graduate studies at Berkeley, receiving a PhD in English in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-2016wsu_page_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2016wsu_page-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, the poetry magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Aerial_(magazine)" title="Aerial (magazine)">Aerial</a></i> published a special issue about Watten.<sup id="cite_ref-Aerial1995_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aerial1995-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1981 and 1998, Watten served as an editor for <i>Poetics Journal</i> along with <a href="/wiki/Lyn_Hejinian" title="Lyn Hejinian">Lyn Hejinian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wesleyan1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wesleyan1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, an anthology of essays from the journal was published, followed by an e-book of the entire journal's content in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Wesleyan1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wesleyan1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Watten joined the English department at <a href="/wiki/Wayne_State_University" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-2003bio_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2003bio-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, some students reported Watten to the university administration for misbehavior and later published their collective testimonials in a blog, including allegations of Watten being "hostile, verbally abusive, and manipulative with female students".<sup id="cite_ref-Nguyen2019_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nguyen2019-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The university hired an independent investigator and removed him from teaching in November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-Nguyen2019_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nguyen2019-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Zahneis2019_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zahneis2019-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watten's faculty union, the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_of_University_Professors" title="American Association of University Professors">American Association of University Professors</a> (AAUP), filed grievances citing a lack of required due process and a restraint of free speech, and requested the restrictions be withdrawn.<sup id="cite_ref-Zahneis2019_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zahneis2019-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The details of the disciplinary action were published after a <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)" title="Freedom of Information Act (United States)">FOIA</a> request, which was protested by Watten as "outrageous".<sup id="cite_ref-Zahneis2019_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zahneis2019-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watten returned to teaching classes in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-2024wsu_page_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2024wsu_page-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_work_and_publications">Major work and publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Major work and publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Primary_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Primary_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>relies excessively on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">references</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">primary sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please improve this section by adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">secondary or tertiary sources</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Watten's poetry is associated with a loosely-affiliated group of avant-garde poets referred to as the West Coast <a href="/wiki/Language_poets" title="Language poets">Language Poets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This group includes Robert Grenier, <a href="/wiki/Ron_Silliman" title="Ron Silliman">Ron Silliman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Benson_(poet)" title="Steve Benson (poet)">Steve Benson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carla_Harryman" title="Carla Harryman">Carla Harryman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyn_Hejinian" title="Lyn Hejinian">Lyn Hejinian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Palmer_(poet)" title="Michael Palmer (poet)">Michael Palmer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Perelman" title="Bob Perelman">Bob Perelman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kit_Robinson" title="Kit Robinson">Kit Robinson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Scalapino" title="Leslie Scalapino">Leslie Scalapino</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group shared an opposition to America's involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, as well as "skepticism about the appropriation of truth by meaning".<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the early 1970s and up until today, the latter group of poets have been able to distinguish themselves from the preceding literary generations and movements, in particular the <a href="/wiki/New_American_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="New American Poetry">New American Poets</a>, through an emphasis on self-reflexive experiences with language rather than the physical body.<sup id="cite_ref-DLB_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watten's early creative work is collected in <i>Frame (1971–1990),</i> which appeared in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two book–length poems—<i>Progress</i> (1985) and <i>Under Erasure</i> (1991)—were republished with a new preface as <i>Progress</i>/<i>Under Erasure</i> (2004). <i>Bad History</i>, a book-length prose poem, appeared in 1998. </p><p>Watten is co-author, with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Davidson_(poet)" title="Michael Davidson (poet)">Michael Davidson</a>, Lyn Hejinian, and Ron Silliman, of <i>Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union</i> (1991). He has published three volumes of literary and cultural criticism: <i>Total Syntax</i> (1985);<i>The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics</i> (2003); and <i>Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences</i> (2016).<sup id="cite_ref-Schwabsky2016_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schwabsky2016-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Heuving_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heuving-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Williams2019_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams2019-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watten is also co-author, with <a href="/wiki/Tom_Mandel_(poet)" title="Tom Mandel (poet)">Tom Mandel</a>, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, Carla Harryman, <a href="/wiki/Rae_Armantrout" title="Rae Armantrout">Rae Armantrout</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ted_Pearson" title="Ted Pearson">Ted Pearson</a>, Steve Benson, and Bob Perelman of <i>The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography.</i> (Detroit, MI: Mode A/This Press, 2006–2010).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also co-edited <i>A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field</i> (Wesleyan University Press, 2013) with <a href="/wiki/Lyn_Hejinian" title="Lyn Hejinian">Lyn Hejinian</a> and <i>Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with Carrie Noland. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The American Comparative Literature Association awarded him the 2004 René Wellek Prize for his book <i>The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Watten is married to poet (and collaborator) Carla Harryman.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> This volume brings together six previously published works of poetry from the previous two decades: <i>Opera—Works</i> (1975); <i>Decay</i> (1977); <i>Plasma/Paralleles/"X"</i> (1979); <i>1–10</i> (1980); <i>Complete Thought</i> (1982); and <i>Conduit</i> (1988)—along with two previously uncollected texts—<i>City Fields</i> and <i>Frame</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This work, which consists of ten volumes, is described as an "experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco".</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barrett_Watten&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 October</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Literature&rft.atitle=Book+Review%3A+Questions+of+Poetics%3A+Language+Writing+and+Consequences+Intricate+Thicket%3A+Reading+Late+Modernist+Poetries&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=905-907&rft.date=2019-12&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1215%2F00029831-7917478&rft.aulast=Heuving&rft.aufirst=Jeanne&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fread.dukeupress.edu%2Famerican-literature%2Farticle-abstract%2F91%2F4%2F905%2F141501%2FQuestions-of-Poetics-Language-Writing-and%3FredirectedFrom%3Dfulltext&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABarrett+Watten" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Williams2019-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Williams2019_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams2019" class="citation journal cs1">Williams, Tyrone (18 January 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jacket2.org/reviews/examples">"Examples of On Barrett Watten's questions"</a>. <i>Jacket2</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 October</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Jacket2&rft.atitle=Examples+of+On+Barrett+Watten%27s+questions&rft.date=2019-01-18&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Tyrone&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fjacket2.org%2Freviews%2Fexamples&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABarrett+Watten" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For additional details, commentary, and links see Barrett Watten's piece <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/posts/post34.html">How <i>The Grand Piano</i> Is Being Written</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070630065810/http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/posts/post34.html">Archived</a> June 30, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.acla.org/ren%C3%A9-wellek-prize-citation-2004">"The René Wellek Prize Citation 2004"</a>. 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Duke University Press: xi–xiii. 2006. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4125381">4125381</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Comparative+Literature&rft.atitle=Comparative+Literature+Prizes+for+2004&rft.volume=58&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=xi-xiii&rft.date=2006&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4125381%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABarrett+Watten" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSimpson1996" class="citation journal cs1">Simpson, Megan (1996). 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