Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2016.
Original scientific paper
AESTHETIC PROVOCATION IN THE AVANT-GARDE – INNOVATION IN CROATIAN LITERATURE
Branka Brlenić-Vujić
; Faculty of philosophy in Osijek
Abstract
This work aims to shed light on specific poetological and cultural-history program texts from Croatian (A. B. Šimić and Miroslav Krleža) and European literature related to »polyphony originating from common European sources«. The challenge in innovating within the first half of the 20th century, within the context of communication between author and reader, was an invitation to explore the art and its limits. The various methods of innovation used as aesthetic provocation within a given poetry varied within the context of Krleža’s interstices, and both served as a measure of value and highlighted the consistency within program texts and the author’s poetry, which was evident from reading the theoretical works of A. B. Šimić. It kept the empirical relativity of its unique characteristics, while keeping in mind the overlap between the reader’s and author’s tastes within a given historical and social window. It was impossible to create something completely new within this artistic diachronic development, as discontinuity is part of the continuity.
Keywords
tradition and innovation; avant-garde aesthetic provocation as a challenge; discontinuity as part of the continuity; A. B. Šimić; M. Krleža and German expressionism
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158181
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Publication date:
9.5.2016.
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