Fikcja awangardy?
The Fiction of the Avant-Garde?

Summary/Abstract: This article tackles the problem of the avant-garde in most recent Polish poetry. In the first part Świeściak recapitulates arguments in favour of categorizing contemporary art and literature as avant-gardist, then she examines recent poetry from three points of view: as an avant-gardist experiment; in terms of the relationship between autonomy and heteronomy (a problem of the political dimension); and in terms of the influence of new media (cyberpoetry). These perspectives reveal that this poetry contains avant-gardist categories of thought, and they highlight a tendency to draw on avant-garde tools. Nonetheless, Świeściak argues, we are not justified to treat contemporary literature as another phase of the avant-garde. Today’s art and literature both demand new ways of aesthetic cognition and categorization.

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