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For many Central-European countries, the inter- and post-war periods marked the beginning of their statehood and entailed the laying of the foundations for literary language itself. Experimental tendencies became a laboratory of bold and ambiguous visions of the world, inspiring many artists to join in the process of rebuilding their communities. Unlike other parts of the world, in Poland experiments thus conceived were not just about contesting bourgeois habits and forms, or testing the boundaries of social and aesthetic conventions. On the contrary, revolutionary-oriented circles supported the building of new centres of intellectual life, joined the cultural mainstream in the broadest possible sense, and, with time, became an important point of reference for the entire panorama of literary and artistic life.

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Author:   Katarzyna Bazarnik ,  Agnieszka Karpowicz ,  Honorata Sroka ,  Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   46
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004730373

ISBN 10:   9004730370
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   25 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Figures and Tables Introduction: the Literary Experiment in Poland 1917–2017 1 Pranas Morkūnas’ Morphophonological Poetry: Futurism, Dada and Politics  Emiliano Ranocchi 2 Fundamentally Simple and Strictly Phonetical Spelling: the Orthographical Experiments of the Warsaw Futurists  Marta Rakoczy 3 The Ear and the Eye: Visual Strategies of Avant-Garde Sound Poetry  Beata Śniecikowska 4 ‘Littérature’ – le meilleur papier hygiénique du siècle: 75HP. and the Pursuit of Innovation and Syncretism in Romanian Avant-Garde in the 1920s  Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev 5 Experimenting with the Experiment: Engineering Re-invented in Multisensory Works by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson  Beata Śniecikowska 6 Between a Poem, Happening and Performance: Jiří Kolář’s ‘Destatic Poetry’  Żaneta Nalewajk-Turecka 7 The Book as a Material Object: the Concept in Owe Hyperbook in the Central European Neo Avant-Garde  Jakub Kornhauser 8 Let the Poem Happen: the Sound in the Poetic Experience of the Yugoslav Avant-Gardes  Magdalena Bogusławska 9 Poetical and Institutional Nomadism: Figures of In-betweenness in the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde  Mónika Dánél 10 From Graphic Scores to Score-Poems: Notational Experiments of the Polish Neo-Avant-Garde (Bogusław Schaeffer – Witold Wirpsza)  Piotr Bogalecki 11 Literature under the Knife and Eraser: Three Case Studies of Erasure Poetics (Racine – Foer – Mokry)  Krzysztof Hoffmann 12 The Political Nature of Life-Writing Experiments  Honorata Sroka 13 Literary Readymade? Experiment as Social Critique  Agnieszka Karpowicz 14 Found Poems: from Anti-poetry to the Art of Subversion  Jerzy Jarniewicz  15 Encased History: Herta Müller’s Experimentation with Language, Image and Book Form in Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm  Katarzyna Bazarnik  16 Experience of Distension, Materiality and Transparency: Zenon Fajfer’s DOWN as an Experimental Work of Liberature  Przemysław Koniuszy 17 De-touched by the Writer: Zenon Fajfer’s Odlot as an Experiment in Space  Katarzyna Biela 18 Vodka, Pizza and Alexa: Strategies of Appeal in Experimental Literature in Poland and Slovakia: From Liberature to AI Poetry  Mariusz Pisarski 19 Poetry in the Social Media Interfaces  Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik 20 Rainer, Playable Literature for the 8-Bit Atari: Technical Report on the Realization of a Digital Experiment  Piotr Marecki, Krzysztof “Kaz” Ziembik and Tomasz “Tbxx” Boksa 21 Stalk-Stanzas: the Organic Nature of Experiment  Marta Baron-Milian 22 An Experiment in Sign Language: Can There Be Experimentation in Sign Language Poetry?  Marcin Demianiuk Index of Names

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Katarzyna Bazarnik, PhD (D.Litt.) is professor in the Institute of English Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her research interests include materiality of literature, experimental and avant-garde writing, and Irish studies. She has published on James Joyce, B.S. Johnson, and liberature, an intermedial literary genre, combining text with the material form of the book (Lat. liber) into an integral whole. Agnieszka Karpowicz, PhD (D.Litt.) is professor of the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is a specialist in literature and culture and member of the Centre for Avant-Garde Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Modernitas, the Maison des Sciences Humaines of the Université libre de Bruxelles. Honorata Sroka, PhD is a literary scholar focused on both avant-gardes and archival studies. She holds a postdoc position at CEFRES Prague. She is also the PI of the grant “The Archive of the Avant-Garde. Interpretations of the Franciszka and Stefan Themerson Correspondence” – funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik, PhD is a literary scholar specializing in the connections between literature, new media, and internet culture. She is the principal investigator of the grant “Poem on the Web: Web Philology – The Example of Tomasz Pułka’s Creative Work (2005–2012),” funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, and affiliated with the University of Warsaw. Jakub Kornhauser, PhD is assistant professor at the Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He is a literary scholar, poet, translator, essayist, editor and performer. He is the co-founder of the Avant-Garde Studies Center at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University.

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