An International Perspective on the Concrete Poetry Movement

by Schaffner, Anna Katharina; Correa, Marina

• ISBN13: 9780230613270
• ISBN10: 0230613276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Interest in experimental and avant-garde poetics is blossoming, to which a large number of recent publications and exhibitions over the last years bear witness. Concrete poetry is no exception to this trend, and interest in concrete poetry has been reinvigorated recently by the critical debate on digital poetry, for which concrete poetry is frequently cited as a precursor. However, concrete poetry, although it is a genuinely international phenomenon with practitioners in Europe, in the Americas and in Asia, has up to now tended to be assessed mainly in terms of national categories, or individual protagonists, groups or movements. This essay collection offers the first and urgently needed comprehensive and comparative study of concrete poetry worldwide. It offers a wide-ranging general introduction to the major national concrete factions, including a chronology of the movement in tabular form, as well as concise discussions of poetics, works and theoretical positions of the various protagonists from diverse cultural backgrounds. The collection will also introduce a new approach by exploring the various forms of concrete in different cultural, political and linguistic contexts. All essays introduce the respective national concrete poetics as specific cultural adaptations of a shared set of general concrete principles, and thus highlight both their outstanding and original features as well as themes and concerns all concrete poets have in common

Author Biography

Anna Katharina Schaffner is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Kent University, UK. Marina Corrêa is Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Languages, University of Vienna, Austria. 

Table of Contents

Archaeologies Of Concrete

Archaeology of Concrete in Poetry and Literature: From Greco- Roman Antiquity to the ‘Concrete Turn’ of the 20th Century

Reinhard Krüger

Proto-Concrete Ventures: Kurt Schwitters and the Historical Avant-Garde

Centres Of Concrete

The ‘Latinamericanization’ of Concrete Poetry in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico

Concrete Poetry in Austria

Concrete Poetry in Brazil: The Work and Impact of the Noigandres Group

Concrete Poetry in Denmark

An Unsentimental Journey through France and Italy: Concrete Poetry and adjacent movements

Germany

Spain and Portugal

Japan

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Knead the Language – Concrete Poetry and Poetic Artifice in the Swedish 1960s

Usa and Canada

Czechoslovakia

Interviews

Gerhard Rühm (all 3000)

Eugen Gomringer

Augusto de Campos Questions to Augusto de Campos

Outlook And Chronology

The Setting of Concrete: A Migration of Forms (5000)

Chronology of the Concrete poetry Movement (3000)

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