The Australian avant-garck raises all the contradictions of avant-garde studies in the present time.Antipodal vanguards in the 20th and 21 st centuries would grapple with various aspects of Australian national history...The Australian avant-garck raises all the contradictions of avant-garde studies in the present time.Antipodal vanguards in the 20th and 21 st centuries would grapple with various aspects of Australian national history,being in various ways and times between East and West,the aligned and non-aligned,the political and geopolitical in poetics.The word"Australia,"from the Latin auster,contains meanings for"East."Most importantly,the Antipodal vanguard exposes the contradictions of Australia’s imperial-colonial past and the struggle to overcome it.In this essay,1 begin with the example of a"Dada"poem that comes from an Aboriginal rain dance,as well as the emergence of Dada poetics from the 1950s to the 1970s.Throughout I keep complexities of history and time at the forefront:what is the worth of a"marginal"national literary history of the avant-garde?What does the avant-garde mean outside Europe or the Euro-US?What can Australian Dadaism tell us about the future of avant-garde studies?Docs the avant-garde always lead to nostalgia,or"Austalgia,"a hearkening after the past,as much as a striving toward the future?展开更多
The poetry of Maggie O’Sullivan, a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, activates prosodic dissonance and incorporates music, which is to say musical scores. In works like From the Handbook of That & ...The poetry of Maggie O’Sullivan, a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, activates prosodic dissonance and incorporates music, which is to say musical scores. In works like From the Handbook of That & Furriery and Palace of Reptiles , musical scores are collaged into the body of the poem. Using the phrase “notational poetics,” this analysis is as much concerned with poems that sound as poems that don’t, but poetry nonetheless that both treats the spatial field of the poem scorelike and / or includes actual musical notation. When poetry meets music myriad questions crop up: Is poetry a kind of (analogous) “music,” as often suggested? What draws poetry to music, and vice versa? Is some mutual estrangement the result of poetry and music having become further alienated over time?展开更多
文摘The Australian avant-garck raises all the contradictions of avant-garde studies in the present time.Antipodal vanguards in the 20th and 21 st centuries would grapple with various aspects of Australian national history,being in various ways and times between East and West,the aligned and non-aligned,the political and geopolitical in poetics.The word"Australia,"from the Latin auster,contains meanings for"East."Most importantly,the Antipodal vanguard exposes the contradictions of Australia’s imperial-colonial past and the struggle to overcome it.In this essay,1 begin with the example of a"Dada"poem that comes from an Aboriginal rain dance,as well as the emergence of Dada poetics from the 1950s to the 1970s.Throughout I keep complexities of history and time at the forefront:what is the worth of a"marginal"national literary history of the avant-garde?What does the avant-garde mean outside Europe or the Euro-US?What can Australian Dadaism tell us about the future of avant-garde studies?Docs the avant-garde always lead to nostalgia,or"Austalgia,"a hearkening after the past,as much as a striving toward the future?
文摘The poetry of Maggie O’Sullivan, a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, activates prosodic dissonance and incorporates music, which is to say musical scores. In works like From the Handbook of That & Furriery and Palace of Reptiles , musical scores are collaged into the body of the poem. Using the phrase “notational poetics,” this analysis is as much concerned with poems that sound as poems that don’t, but poetry nonetheless that both treats the spatial field of the poem scorelike and / or includes actual musical notation. When poetry meets music myriad questions crop up: Is poetry a kind of (analogous) “music,” as often suggested? What draws poetry to music, and vice versa? Is some mutual estrangement the result of poetry and music having become further alienated over time?
