Elements of the Formal Procedures in Zaum Poetic experiment Cover Image

Elementi formalnih postupaka u zaumnom pesničkom eksperimentu
Elements of the Formal Procedures in Zaum Poetic experiment

Author(s): Amra Latifić
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: zaum;formalism; poetry; Russian avantgarde; form; function;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the elements and strategies of Russian formalism applied to the Russian avantgarde zaum poetic experiment of Alexei Kruchenykh and Viktor Khlebnikov. In futuristic tendencies to create a trans-rational language or zaum language lies the idea of a new voice, sounds andsemantic meaning. According to Russian poets the new semantic meaning of the word is obtainedonly in the process of performing a poem. Also, according to Russian formalism, sound of poem,in the performing process, has its own independent meaning. In this sense zaum experiment in itsprinted form does not possess a fixed resolution of meanings, but only has potential of meanings.The function of fixed forms, that during the process of performing is to form a new movablesemantic meaning.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 81-94
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian