Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes

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 assistant professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is the PI of several research projects and the author of articles on avant-garde archives, self-historicization and experimental life writing (projects funded by the National Science Centre Poland, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales and Charles University in Prague). Paulina Chorzewska-Rubik, PhD is a research assistant at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz. She is 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.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: the Literary Experiment in Poland 1917–20171 Pranas Morkūnas’ Morphophonological Poetry: Futurism, Dada and PoliticsEmiliano Ranocchi 2 Fundamentally Simple and Strictly Phonetical Spelling: the Orthographical Experiments of the Warsaw FuturistsMarta Rakoczy 3 The Ear and the Eye: Visual Strategies of Avant-Garde Sound PoetryBeata Śniecikowska 4 ‘Littérature’ – le meilleur papier hygiénique du siècle: 75HP. and the Pursuit of Innovation and Syncretism in Romanian Avant-Garde in the 1920sOlga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev 5 Experimenting with the Experiment: Engineering Re-invented in Multisensory Works by Franciszka and Stefan ThemersonBeata 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-GardeJakub Kornhauser 8 Let the Poem Happen: the Sound in the Poetic Experience of the Yugoslav Avant-GardesMagdalena Bogusławska9 Poetical and Institutional Nomadism: Figures of In-betweenness in the Hungarian Neo-Avant-GardeMónika Dánél10 From Graphic Scores to Score-Poems: Notational Experiments of the Polish Neo-Avant-Garde (Bogusław Schaeffer – Witold Wirpsza)Piotr Bogalecki11 Literature under the Knife and Eraser: Three Case Studies of Erasure Poetics (Racine – Foer – Mokry)Krzysztof Hoffmann 12 The Political Nature of Life-Writing ExperimentsHonorata Sroka 13 Literary Readymade? Experiment as Social CritiqueAgnieszka Karpowicz 14 Found Poems: from Anti-poetry to the Art of SubversionJerzy Jarniewicz 15 Encased History: Herta Müller’s Experimentation with Language, Image and Book Form in Der Wächter nimmt seinen KammKatarzyna Bazarnik16 Experience of Distension, Materiality and Transparency: Zenon Fajfer’s DOWN as an Experimental Work of LiberaturePrzemysław Koniuszy17 De-touched by the Writer: Zenon Fajfer’s Odlot as an Experiment in SpaceKatarzyna Biela18 Vodka, Pizza and Alexa: Strategies of Appeal in Experimental Literature in Poland and Slovakia: From Liberature to AI PoetryMariusz Pisarski19 Poetry in the Social Media InterfacesPaulina Chorzewska-Rubik20 Rainer, Playable Literature for the 8-Bit Atari: Technical Report on the Realization of a Digital ExperimentPiotr Marecki, Krzysztof “Kaz” Ziembik and Tomasz “Tbxx” Boksa21 Stalk-Stanzas: the Organic Nature of ExperimentMarta Baron-Milian22 An Experiment in Sign Language: Can There Be Experimentation in Sign Language Poetry?Marcin Demianiuk Index of Names