Književnost i revolucije: zbornik radova

The collection of essays "Literature and Revolutions" gathers the contributions of the final conference of the Croatian Science Foundation project (Literary Revolutions IP-01-2018-7020), which took place from 29. XI. to 1. XII. 2022. This book focuses primarily on exploring the legacy of the avant-garde in the literary and social sphere, starting from a contemporary, critical approach to the historical avant-garde in the broader Central European and South Slavic context. Considering the ways in which radical political and poetic changes in the artistic sphere are brought about through literary practices, this collection of articles traces analogous processes and relationships in the historical revolutionary years. In accordance with the aims of the project, the following research questions were posed: What is the relationship between literary revolutions and paradigm shifts: in literary theory and literary history, in models, types, concepts of language and literariness, authorial practices and poetics? Is it possible to redefine and reinterpret the avant-garde as a historical, transhistorical and supranational concept? In addition to developing a theoretical-methodological paradigm for understanding and analyzing concepts of literary revolutions based on the esthetic autonomy of literature, the aim of this book is to grasp the emancipatory potential of literature and the radical changes in poetic expression, especially in relation to the concepts of utopia and optimal projection, according to which the individual literary heresies also develop. The authors of this book pursue these questions about the processuality and continuity of the post-avant-garde literary revolution. By combining their theoretical and methodological interest in avant-garde controversies, revolutions, schools and influences with their interest in the literary text, they offer new readings and interpretations in this book. Their revaluation impulse is reflected in the interpretations of the authors' interventions (Krleža, Ujević, Kamov, Cesarec, Ristić, Marinković, Šinko), the laws of genre (drama, novel, poetry), collective and individual aspirations in the context of the performing arts and ecology, post-Yugoslav literature, postcolonialism and capitalism, feminism and queer theory.