Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.32.2
On the Possibilities of Theorising the Avant-garde in Literary Studies
Christine Magerski
orcid.org/0000-0001-7004-7291
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
To those familiar with the literary feuilleton, Kim de l’Horizon, the winner of the German and Swiss Book Prize 2022, embodies »the avant-garde in perpetuity«. The phrase alludes not only to the excessive, commercially driven use of the term ›avant-garde‹, but also to the paradox of a movement that remains static. The purpose of this article is to refine the concept of the avant-garde and to demonstrate its inherent potential for contemporary literary practice. The article delineates two approaches: first, a formalist perspective informed by systems theory; second, an interpretation of the avant-garde as the institutionalisation of deviation.
Keywords
avant-garde; contemporary literature; Peter Bürger; Niklas Luhmann
Hrčak ID:
311742
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Publication date:
20.12.2023.
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