Russian and American Poetry of Experiment : : The Linguistic Avant-Garde.

• Superior document: Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; v.34
• Author: Feshchenko, Vladimir.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)

"An experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? And what do language scholars think about it? Specialists in language and literature studies interested in linguistic innovation and experimental poetry will find answers to these questions in Vladimir Feshchenko's book. The study investigates various strategies of radical linguistic creativity in Russian and American experimental writing of the 20th century and explores cases of contemporary 'language-oriented' and 'trans-language' poetry. It is a comparative examination of two national avant-garde cultures, but also a juxtaposition of the relationships that Russian and American avant-garde poetics had with linguistic ideas of their times. The monograph may serve as a wonderful introduction to the entire field of 'linguistic poetics of the avant-garde'"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro : the linguistic twists and turns of the literary Avant-Garde -- Part 1. Revolutions of the word : from Symbolist to late Avant-Garde Russian poetry -- 1. Energeia, not Ergon : Humboldtian linguistics in Russian poetry -- 2. Zvukoslovie : verbal magic as poetic action in Russian Symbolism -- 3. Futurist Glossolalias and Grapholalias -- 4. A breakthrough into languages : Velimir Khlebnikov's Yazykovodstvo -- 5. Wassily Kandinsky and the birth of the languages of art -- 6. Transition 1. Experiments with time and language : Alexander Vvedensky's and Gertrude Stein's poetic grammar -- Part 2. A turn to language in American Modernist and Avant-Garde writing -- 6. Language arts : the early American Avant-Garde in verbal art -- 7. Poempictures : E.E. Cummings' performative language -- 8. Heteroglossia and hybridisation in E.E. Cummings' Eimi : a journey through Soviet Russia -- 9. Revolution of language and Eugene Jolas -- Transition 2. Linguistics and poetics : Roman Jakobson's opening and closing statements -- Part 3. Post-Modernism, Neo-Avant-Garde : Russian and American poetries of language after WWII -- 10. From Babel to babble : the new Russian poetic Avante-Garde after the loss of speech -- 11. American and Russian conceptualism : how to do verse with concepts -- 12. Language writing : American-Russian poetic transfers -- 13. Object-oriented languages : American objectivism and contemporary Russian poetry -- 14. Poetry beyond language barriers : contemporary 'trans-language' writing in Russia and USA -- Outro. Lab(-)oratory of the logos.