Voiceless vanguard
Subtitle: the infantilist aesthetic of the Russian avant-garde
By: Sara Pankenier Weld
Series: Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Evanston, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780810129849
Subjects: Russian literature; History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History; Experimental Literature; Russian Arts; Voice in literature; Children in literature; Children in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. From voicelessness to voice --; title: Infant art : Mikhail Larionov, children's drawings, and neo-primitivist art --; title: Infant word : Aleksei Kruchenykh, children's language, and cubo-futurist poetics --; title: Infant eye : Viktor Shklovsky, the naive perspective, and formalist theory --; title: Infant mind : Daniil Kharms, childish alogism, and OBERIU literature of the absurd --; title: Conclusion. The end point of the infantilist aesthetic.