Original scientific paper

THE STRATEGIES OF LITERARY HISTORICAL AVANT-GARDES

Branimir Bošnjak ; Zagreb

Abstract

The first part of the paper gives a summary of the thematisation of the space of the so-called 'historical avant-gardes', their dehierarchical and destructive relationship towards the civilisation as a whole. The decomposition of the semantic sign and reality, and the so-called 'discourse competitiveness' of historical avant-gardes makes allowances for ambivalent interpretation of the whole of avant-garde praxis. Thus, Josip Sever's text can be read on two levels: as a stereotypisation of historical avant-garde procedures and their fragmentation within their own discourse on the one, and as post-modern communication with the neighbouring discourses seen as textual rather than organic sense matrix on the other. In such an interpretation of thetraditionalisation of 'historical avant-gardes' and the actualisation within the discourse of post-avant-garde 'erasure' of the poetical subject, Josip Sever's poetical praxis represents an essential transition, or step, from the poetry of existence towards the poetry of language in Croatian poetical experience.

Keywords

Croatian poetry; avant-garde; historical avant-gardes; poetry of existence; poetry of language; Josip Sever

Hrčak ID:

132783

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/132783

Publication date:

12.1.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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