Revue des Littératures de l'Union Européenne

Rilune
Introduction
Editorial Board
Partners
Monographic Issues
Minos Library
Calls for papers

Literary Europe
DESE
News
EU Humanities online

Projects
CRAM
Europe-Poésie

Homepage


Review of Literatures of the European Union

Numéro monographique 3 - September 2005

Avant-garde et avant-gardes en Europe
ed. by Tania Collani

Index and Abstracts


Bibliography
- Presentation of Issue n. 3

Andrea Battistini (Università di Bologna)
La giovinezza, imperativo anagrafico delle avanguardie - Abstract
Title in English: Youth, the imperative of the avant-garde

Rita Bischof (Universität Hannover)
Prolegomena zu einer Hermeneutik der Avantgarde - Abstract

Titre in English: Prolegomena to a Hermeneutics of Avant-garde

Sanja Bahun - Radunovic (Rutgers University)
When the Margin Cries: Surrealism in Yugoslavia - Abstract

Joanna Peiron (Université de Provence) - Abstract
Le jubilatoire postmoderne: un mode au sein de l’avant-garde européenne
Title in English: The postmodern jubilatory: a mode within the European avant-garde

Eddie Breuil (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Vie et mort de la Collection Dada
- Abstract
Titre in English: History of Collection Dada


Andrea Battistini (Università di Bologna)
La giovinezza, imperativo anagrafico delle avanguardie
Title in English: Youth, the imperative of the avant-garde
Abstract
This article, as the title clearly points out, is focused on the study of “youth”, both as a symbolic element and a biographic one, for the European avant-garde artists of the beginning of the XXth century. Starting from an Italian perspective and enlarging the field of study to the totality of the last century avant-garde movements, this article proposes to consider Youth and its celebration, not just the mere affirmation of the gap with the previous generation, but as the primary factor that, thanks to its fantasies, dynamism and anger, allowed to these movements a total rupture with the past, that is essential to any avant-garde.
Keywords: avant-garde, youth, futurism, Marinetti, Italy

Rita Bischof (Universität Hannover)
Prolegomena zu einer Hermeneutik der Avantgarde
Title in English: Prolegomena to a Hermeneutics of Avant-garde
Abstract
Moving from a brief account of different interpretations of the European Avant-garde, this study asserts the necessity of elaborating a hermeneutics of the Avant-garde which ensures a preeminence to its works. This is not so simple: firstly one has to understand the genesis, the function and the significance of the different forms of the Avant-garde. Secondly, one has to question whether these can supply the categories for a modern hermeneutics detached from the classic idea. This assertion also implies a philosophical reconsideration of Avant-garde, as well as a redefinition of the main ideas connected to the Avant-garde, namely the notion of crisis – the crisis of the works, the author, the culture and the knowledge itself.
Keywords: Hermeneutics, Avant-garde, crisis, philosophy, modern

Sanja Bahun - Radunovic (Rutgers University)
When the Margin Cries: Surrealism in Yugoslavia
Abstract
The curious international critical disregard has been the fate of the Belgrade Surrealists. Yet, the Belgrade Surrealist Circle was one of the most vibrant early-surrealist strongholds in Europe (1922-1932). The intense collaboration of the French and Belgrade surrealists calls for a research of reciprocal influences between a dominant and a «minor» culture. The article «When the Margin Cries: Surrealism in Yugoslavia» explores the activity of the Belgrade group in the context of its intriguing cultural and political setting (the “gate” of Europe). Arguing for the power of “cultural suburbia”, this essay reinterprets the dynamic of the periphery and the center in the European avant-garde.
Keywords: Surrealism, Yugoslavia, margin, avant-garde, journals

Joanna Peiron (Université de Provence)
Le jubilatoire postmoderne: un mode au sein de l’avant-garde européenne
Title in English: The postmodern jubilatory: a mode within the European avant-garde
Abstract
The definition of modernity given by Lyotard enables us to isolate two different types within the field of the European avant-gardes, modern and postmodern, according to the way the text alludes to the sublime. After defining the characteristics of both types, the author analyses the textual conditions which ensure the functioning of the second type, prevailing among the European avant-garde writers. A serial composition of the units of this model of read text is observed. The properties of those series are specified, as well as those of the element which connect the different units of the text, an element which is very similar to the dark precursor described by Deleuze. Moving from texts by Maïakovski, Tzara, Luca, Bialoszewski or Marinetti, the study distinguishes three types of element ensuring connections to the series: without textual mark, with modern textual mark and with postmodern textual mark.
Keywords: modernity, postmodern, avant-garde, Lyotard, sublime

Eddie Breuil (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Vie et mort de la Collection Dada
Title in English: History of Collection Dada
Abstract
The author intends to study the “collection” of Dada, which spread to Switzerland, France and Italy. First of all, we’ll look insight into the notion of the dada “collection”. Then, we’ll try to know how this international project of “collection” developed and which links have been established (or broken up) in this activity. I mainly focus on four phases : the beginning of the “collection” (in Zurich with Huelsenbeck, Tzara and Janco), it’s propagation to Paris (with le Sans Pareil), the abortive period of dada’s international edition of Clément Pansaers, and the attempt of resurrection of the “collection” (with Evola, Tzara, Péret and Arp) in collaboration with worldwide artists.
Keywords: collection, Huelsenbeck, Evola, Au Sans Pareil, edition

Bibliography
Presentation of Issue n. 3

© Rilune 2005