科研成果详情

This article engages with selected poetic and essayistic pieces by Oskar Pastior (1927-2006) and Thomas Kling (1957-2005), whose works testify to the endurance of literary legacies ranging from Antiquity to the pre- and post-War global avant-gardes. The two poets are analysed here side by side and situated in a common context of influence and reception. Emphasis is given to the ways in which the two authors use avant-garde poetic tools to reflect on the interweavings of aesthetics and politics in the wake of 1989 and thereby revamp avant-garde practices within the new poetic and political contexts at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. While applying the paradigm of medialization from the perspective of its effects on poetry, the article reflects upon the status of lyric for these authors after the demise of a poetics of (new) subjectivity. © The Author (2011). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved.