Fikcja awangardy?
The Fiction of the Avant-Garde?
Author(s): Alina ŚwieściakSubject(s): History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: avant-garde; modernism; autonomy; heteronomy; aesthetics; the political dimension; cyberpoetry
Summary/Abstract: This article tackles the problem of the avant-garde in most recent Polish poetry. In the first part Świeściak recapitulates arguments in favour of categorizing contemporary art and literature as avant-gardist, then she examines recent poetry from three points of view: as an avant-gardist experiment; in terms of the relationship between autonomy and heteronomy (a problem of the political dimension); and in terms of the influence of new media (cyberpoetry). These perspectives reveal that this poetry contains avant-gardist categories of thought, and they highlight a tendency to draw on avant-garde tools. Nonetheless, Świeściak argues, we are not justified to treat contemporary literature as another phase of the avant-garde. Today’s art and literature both demand new ways of aesthetic cognition and categorization.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 47-69
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish
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