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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787977903321

Autore

Weld Sara Pankenier

Titolo

Voiceless vanguard : the infantilist aesthetic of the Russian avant-garde / / Sara Pankenier Weld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-8101-6772-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory

Disciplina

891.709004

Soggetti

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century

Literature, Experimental - Russia (Federation) - History and criticism

Arts, Russian - 20th century

Voice in literature

Children in literature

Children in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. From voicelessness to voice -- Infant art : Mikhail Larionov, children's drawings, and neo-primitivist art -- Infant word : Aleksei Kruchenykh, children's language, and cubo-futurist poetics -- Infant eye : Viktor Shklovsky, the naive perspective, and formalist theory -- Infant mind : Daniil Kharms, childish alogism, and OBERIU literature of the absurd -- Conclusion. The end point of the infantilist aesthetic.