Knotting Loops in the European Avant-Garde(s) The Poetic Image in Ezra Pound’s, A. B. Šimić’s and André Breton’s Anti/Ana-Aesthetics, and its Relation to Painting
Knotting Loops in the European Avant-Garde(s) The Poetic Image in Ezra Pound’s, A. B. Šimić’s and André Breton’s Anti/Ana-Aesthetics, and its Relation to Painting
Author(s): Aleksandar MijatovićSubject(s): Aesthetics, Croatian Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, American Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Odsjek za germanistiku - Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Keywords: Aesthetics; Avant-Garde; Ezra Pound; A. B. Šimić; André Breton;
Summary/Abstract: The essay offers a (re)construction of an avant-garde network consisting of imagism, expressionism, and surrealism in literature and art. It proposes a reassessment of Ezra Pound’s and André Breton’s concepts of the poetic image, and compares them to their counterpart in the writing and poetry of Croatian expressionist writer Antun Branko Šimić. Through this reconstruction of one node in the avant-garde network, the paper proposes a theory of avant-garde as a twofold structure of de-figuration and transfiguration, which performs the role of re-figuring reality. This proposal solves a principal tension in Peter Bürger’s argument expounded in Theorie der Avantgarde.
Journal: Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 32
- Page Range: 67-80
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
