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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’.

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Vladimir Feshchenko is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He received his Dr. Hab. in 2021 for the thesis The Linguo-Aesthetic Turn in Theory of Language and in Artistic Experiment. He has published four books in Russian: Laboratory of the Logos: Language Experiment in Avant-Garde Creativity (2009); The Creation of the Sign. Essays in Linguistic Aesthetics and Semiotics of Art (2014, co-authored with O. Koval’); The Linguistic Turns of the Literary Avant-Garde (2018); Language within Language: Artistic Discourse and the Foundations of Linguistic Aesthetics (2022), and translated Anglo-American modernist and post-modernist texts into Russian, including works by Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings, Eugene Jolas, Wyndham Lewis, and Language poets.

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