Citation
Perloff, Marjorie. “How Avant-Gardes Rise, Fall, and Mutate: The Case of Language Poetry.” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, vol. 2, no. 4, Nov. 2006, pp. 30–46. www.pdcnet.org, https://doi.org/10.5840/jphilnepal20062420.
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Collations
Literature notes
What is non-representational art and poetry?
What is ostranenie (defamiliarization) among the Russian avant-garde from 1912?
What is the Cabaret Voltaire?
What is communitarianism?
What is Dada?
What is a grapheme?
What is a signifier in a poem?
- The physical or sensory form of a sign (word, spoken sound, imagery) that triggers a mental concept in the reader’s mind.
What is a referent in a poem? - The real-world object, person, place, concept, or idea that a specific word or symbol points to.
What does the following statement mean?
- In poetry the signifier is always “superfluous,” overloaded with potential meanings and hence more properly a cipher.
What is the meaning of Siliman’s claim that “Under capitalism, reference is transformed (deformed) into referentiality”?
Realizations
I think I might focus on “spatial poetry”
Prompts
cenacle :: discussion group or literary clique
congeries :: a disorderly collection
cipher :: code
parataxis :: the placing of one clause or phrase after another