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After the Second World War, many European countries witnessed a surge of radical innovation in literature. Experimental literature from that period undermines genre distinctions (esp. those between essay, prose, and poetry) and distinctions between literature and non-literature (other media, arts, etc.). This complex mix challenges the extant textual methods for analysis, such as narratology and poetry analysis. In the wake of the historical avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde not only flourishes in hybrid genres, but also in genres which hardly attracted any attention in the study of the transnational dynamics of the European neo-avant-garde. By combining the expertise of Belgian, French and Austrian partners, the WOG aims to (1) chart these innovative neo-avant-garde movements for a number of European countries and languages (viz. Dutch, French, German, English) focusing on texts in which the borders of essay, poetry and narrative fiction are crossed; (2) reveal the manifold synchronic interactions between these movements across Europe. In that way, the transnational dynamics of the neo-avant-garde can be mapped; (3) reveal the diachronic links between the innovations of the postwar neo-avant-garde and the historical avant-garde of the first half of the twentieth century; (4) develop a methodology and a toolbox that match the experimental strategies of the texts under scrutiny. Normal 0 21 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Standaardtabel; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:12.0pt; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:0cm; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}

Keywords:Neo-avant-garde, experimental literature, comparative study of literature, literary history, literary politics, literary profiling, regional and global studies, intermediality

Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies