title:
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Gellu Naum’s "The advantage of vertebrae" : a surrealist path between collage, concrete poetry and liberature |
author: |
Kornhauser Jakub
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editor:
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Diaconu Mircea A., Nagy Rodica, Dimian Raluca, Petroşel Daniela, Coroi Ioana-Crina, Strugaru Oana |
book title:
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Critical discourse and linguistic variation : new investigation perspectives : receptions, analyses, openings : September 8-9, 2010, Suceava, România = Discurs critic şi variaţie lingvistică : noi perspective de investigare : receptări, analize, deschideri |
date of publication
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2011 |
place of publication : name of publisher:
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Suceava : Editura Universităţii "Ştefan cel Mare"
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pages:
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157-163 |
ISBN: |
978-973-666-372-7
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language: |
English |
book language:
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English |
abstract in English: |
The paper presents one of the most interesting experiments in the Gellu Naum’s Surrealist repertoire, The Advantage of Vertebrae, a cycle of collage poems, created originally in the 40’s, but published late in 1975’s book Describing a tower. The poem is de-poetized by removing its teritory to the new context of the fashion-plate’s illustrations. The structure of the text is decomposed, disjoined, unbridled, oblated to the level of a signature under a photo. Altough it rejects traditional versification and even punctuation, Naum’s work is far from being an uncontrolled, amorphous outpouring of the unconscious; in the middle of this graphic/textual teritory, poetry seeks for its own destination. The text is not only de-formed, but, what is more important, re-constructed in the process of the fluid transformations, subsequently functioning more as an object then a traditional poem. This strange piece of art could also anticipate the formal experiments of the 50’s and 60’s notably the concrete poetry or be treated as a representative of liberature, the category suggested by Polish poet Zenon Fajfer back in the late 90’s. Fajfer underlines the material aspect of literature as an object: in this point of view, The Advantage of Vertebrae becomes the laboratory of the poetry itself, gaining a new, unlimited identity. In consequence, it can no longer be interpretable, analysis being a sole form of investigation. |
keywords in Polish: |
liberatura, poezja konkretna, Gellu Naum, poezja rumuńska |
keywords in English: |
liberature, concrete poetry, Gellu Naum, Romanian Poetry |
number of pulisher's sheets: |
0,6 |
affiliation: |
Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Romańskiej |
type: |
chapter |
subtype: |
conference proceedings |