A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes : The Literary Experiment in Poland and Beyond 1917-2017 / edited by Katarzyna Bazarnik, Agnieszka Karpowicz, Honorata Sroka, Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik, and Jakub Kornhauser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bazarnik, Katarzyna, editor.

Chorzewska-Rubik, Paulina, editor.

Karpowicz, Agnieszka, editor.

Kornhauser, Jakub, editor.

Sroka, Honorata, editor.

Series:

Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 46.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 46

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Literary Experiment in Poland and Beyond 1917-2017

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For many Central-European countries, the inter- and post-war periods marked the beginning of their statehood and entailed the laying of the foundations for literary language itself. Experimental tendencies became a laboratory of bold and ambiguous visions of the world, inspiring many artists to join in the process of rebuilding their communities. Unlike other parts of the world, in Poland experiments thus conceived were not just about contesting bourgeois habits and forms, or testing the boundaries of social and aesthetic conventions. On the contrary, revolutionary-oriented circles supported the building of new centres of intellectual life, joined the cultural mainstream in the broadest possible sense, and, with time, became an important point of reference for the entire panorama of literary and artistic life.

Contents:

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: the Literary Experiment in Poland 1917–2017

1 Pranas Morkūnas’ Morphophonological Poetry: Futurism, Dada and Politics

Emiliano Ranocchi

2 Fundamentally Simple and Strictly Phonetical Spelling: the Orthographical Experiments of the Warsaw Futurists

Marta Rakoczy

3 The Ear and the Eye: Visual Strategies of Avant-Garde Sound Poetry

Beata Śniecikowska

4 ‘Littérature’ – le meilleur papier hygiénique du siècle: 75HP . and the Pursuit of Innovation and Syncretism in Romanian Avant-Garde in the 1920s

Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev

5 Experimenting with the Experiment: Engineering Re-invented in Multisensory Works by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson

6 Between a Poem, Happening and Performance: Jiří Kolář’s ‘Destatic Poetry’

Żaneta Nalewajk-Turecka

7 The Book as a Material Object: the Concept in Owe Hyperbook in the Central European Neo Avant-Garde

Jakub Kornhauser

8 Let the Poem Happen: the Sound in the Poetic Experience of the Yugoslav Avant-Gardes

Magdalena Bogusławska

9 Poetical and Institutional Nomadism: Figures of In-betweenness in the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde

Mónika Dánél

10 From Graphic Scores to Score-Poems: Notational Experiments of the Polish Neo-Avant-Garde (Bogusław Schaeffer – Witold Wirpsza)

Piotr Bogalecki

11 Literature under the Knife and Eraser: Three Case Studies of Erasure Poetics (Racine – Foer – Mokry)

Krzysztof Hoffmann

12 The Political Nature of Life-Writing Experiments

Honorata Sroka

13 Literary Readymade? Experiment as Social Critique

Agnieszka Karpowicz

14 Found Poems: from Anti-poetry to the Art of Subversion

Jerzy Jarniewicz

15 Encased History: Herta Müller’s Experimentation with Language, Image and Book Form in Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm Katarzyna Bazarnik

16 Experience of Distension, Materiality and Transparency: Zenon Fajfer’s DOWN as an Experimental Work of Liberature

Przemysław Koniuszy

17 De - touched by the Writer: Zenon Fajfer’s Odlot as an Experiment in Space

Katarzyna Biela

18 Vodka, Pizza and Alexa: Strategies of Appeal in Experimental Literature in Poland and Slovakia: From Liberature to AI Poetry

Mariusz Pisarski

19 Poetry in the Social Media Interfaces

Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik

20 Rainer, Playable Literature for the 8-Bit Atari: Technical Report on the Realization of a Digital Experiment

Piotr Marecki, Krzysztof “Kaz” Ziembik and Tomasz “Tbxx” Boksa

21 Stalk-Stanzas: the Organic Nature of Experiment

Marta Baron-Milian

22 An Experiment in Sign Language: Can There Be Experimentation in Sign Language Poetry?

Marcin Demianiuk

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-73038-9

9789004730380

OCLC:

1569118626

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004730380 DOI