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Wandering Idea of the Avant-garde. Centre for Cultural Decontamination and Serbian Resistance Culture

The article addresses the presence of the avant-garde in the discourse and the practice of social resistance in Serbia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The focal point of the text is the thesis that nowadays…

The Slav Avant-garde in Australian Art

Australian art history includes a peculiar short period during which the European avant-garde values were brought to Australia by a group of Slav artists who gathered in Adelaide in 1950. They were brothers Voitre (1919…

Decentred Geographies: Poetics and Politics of the Avant-garde

Thanks to the work of Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch and many others, over the past two decades, the concept of world literature has once again become the subject of thorough examination within the fie…

Futurist Suggestions in the War Poems by Josip (Sibe) Miličić

With the opening of the twentieth century, the beneficial river of the avant-gardes seemed to flood the entire European continent in a happy contamination of national cultures, giving life to an authentic supranational…

Transgressions. Penetrations. Synchronicity. Comments on the Imagination in the Croatian and Serbian Literary Avant-garde

The article discusses selected problems of the image, imagination and the ideological-aesthetic consciousness of the avant-garde in Croatian and Serbian literatures. Inspired by the ideas of modern Europe and opened to…

Flâneur of the Surreality. Vítězslav Nezval's Surreal Walks around Prague

In the surrealistic period of his literary work Vítězslav Nezval, following the French formula of presenting Paris as an archetypical modern city, published textual passage Pražský chodec (1938) which title is taken fro…

‟In Search of New Dynamic Forms of Speech" "The Twelve" as an Avant-garde Phenomenon of 1930s Ukrainian Literature

"The Twelve" was the name of a group of Ukrainian littérateurs, active during the period of 1934 to 1939 in Lviv. The phenomenon of "Lviv's youngest literary bohemians of the 1930s" (W. Gabor) was discovered relatively…

Augustin Tin Ujević's Experience of the Belgrade

The subject of the analysis in this article are the texts of Augustin Tin Ujević created during his stay in Belgrade. The way of experiencing this city by the poet is reflected through the relationship between the subje…

Avant-garde After the Avant-garde in Croatian Poetry

The article discusses the problem of the avant-garde in Croatian poetry during the second half of 20th century. It supports the thesis about the continuity of the avant-garde before and after World War II, and perceives…

A [Non]realistic Portrait of the Half-deaf Tonka by August Cesarec

In the centre of the article's interest, there are the expressionist ideas present in the work by Croatian writer from the inter-war period (1893-1941). The mini-novel/novella in question entitled Tonkina jedina ljubav…

The Mask of the ‟Odessa Beaumond": Poetry of Borys Necherda

There are analysed in the article writings of the Ukrainian poet Borys Necherda (1939-1998). He was the original writer of the generation of 1960th and made brave experiments with the artistic word. Necherda as an autho…

On the Guestion of the "Native Art" [Rodno izkustvo] Style in the Aspect of Bulgarian Avant-garde in the 1920s

The article presents the selected aspects of the Bulgarian avant-garde movement called "Native Art" (Rodno izkustvo) which developed in art (painting of Ivan Milev and others) and literature (the so-called decorative pr…

About Italian Futurism in Rijeka on 1919

The article discusses the short-lived emergence of Italian futurism in Rijeka, just after the end of World War I, in the context of the political adventure of Gabrielle DʼAnnunzio, who, with the help of his supporters,…

"Nothing but Disgust" - Ladislav Klíma's Connections with Gothicism

Few interpretations of the work of Ladislav Klíma, by both Polish and Czech researchers, most often emphasize the philosophical aspect of his writing. They point to the connections of his work with the philosophy of Sch…

Body Language in Polish and Russian Phraseology

The article addresses the issue of a body language as a semiotic code and its reflection in systems of natural languages, in their phraseological resources. The material for analysis is phraseological units of contempor…

The Polish Interwar Period in the Mirror of Collective Reception

The subject of this review is the reception of Polish interwar literature in Bulgaria, and particularly the anthology Polish Poetry between the Two World Wars (2019), by Panayot Karagyozov and the special issue of Liter…

Political Poster in the Croatian Iconosphere

The titular problem of Croatian political poster, regarded as an art of margins, is treated by the author, according to the order of chapters, in four main aspects: historical, aesthetic, socio-political, and cultural o…

Holy and Worldly... Body, Somatic Dimension of Narration

The article briefly presents a series of problems discussed in the dissertation entitled Свето и пропадљиво. Тело у српској хагиографској књижевности (Holy and Worldly. Body in Serbian Hagiographic Literature) by Smilja…

Avant-garde in Panoramic View

The Seeing Avant-garde [Widzenie awangardy] volume edited by Agata Stankowska, MarcinTelicki and Agata Lewandowska is a collection of the articles about the avant-garde update.Written by many researchers, the articles s…

Literature and Revolution as an Avant-garde Heritage. Round Table on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

The text summarizes and reviews the round table organized on the 19th September 2019 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb with the main goal to investigate the methodological and thematic approache…

Towards a Different Knowledge: the Knjiženstvo Database and the Digitisation of Materials

The first part of this paper introduces the concept of digital humanities and the phases that some researchers note in the development of the humanities in new, digital media, as well as the role of digital humanities i…

Pulmonary function tests in petrol pump workers exposed for three years to petrol/diesel fumes in Mathura District Uttar Pradesh

Background: Occupational and environmental exposure to petroleum refinery products poses a great threat to human health and petrol pump workers by virtue of their occupation are continuously exposed to petroleum gases a…

Archiwum jako praktyka w historii literatury

Archive as a Practice in the Literary History

Archive as a Practice in the Literary History

Deconstruction and the Archival Revolution: on the Relevance and Reception of Archive Fever in New Media Studies

The paper focuses on the reception of Derrida's Archive Fever among (new) media theorists and its relevance for the ongoing discussions in that academic field. Although this Derrida's text is often described as the one…