The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature
- 1982
- 430
This comprehensive volume of essays fills a long-felt gap in the study of literary modernism. Preface, Introduction: What is Avant Garde, The New Spirit of Poets, The Archetypes of Literature, German Expressionist Drama, Literature, Italian Futurism, Russian Formalism, Russian Futurism and Its Theoreticians, Art in a Closed Field, Projective Verse, Contemporary German Fiction: The Dimensions of Experimentation, A Found Introduction, Vanishing Point, The New Theatre, Visual Poetry, Concrete Sound Poetry, Innovative Literature in America, Some Poetry Intermedia, Bibliography, Contributors.