COUNTER-COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES IN THE WORKS OF MICHAEL MITRAS
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-1-21-106-113
Abstract
This article discusses counter-communicative practices in the works of the Greek avantgarde writer M. Mitras (1944–2019). One of the key representatives of the Greek experimental literature, Mithras had a significant impact on the third and final stage of the formation of the national literary avant-garde, which took place in the 1970s. This period can be characterised by the transition from the dichotomy of “hybrid avant-garde” and the conservative line of modernism to the pluralism of avant-garde strategies of writing. Regarded as a representative of the «concrete poetry» international movement, in his prose works Mitras followed a number of strategies widely used in the American «language-centered writing». Counter-communicative practices were used by representatives of both tendencies in order to subvert the passive role of the reader and to encourage him to become an equal participant of the creative process. Identifying these practices in the works of the Greek author, analysing their role and consistency with theory and practice of rep-resentatives of the avant-garde movements with which he is associated, offers a new look at Mithras’s work and opens up new perspectives for the study of avant-garde formation processes in Greece.
About the Author
P. S. Zarutskiy
Saint-Petersburg State University (SPSU): Faculty of Philology
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pavel S. Zarutskiy – Master of Modern Greek philology, postgraduate student in Saint-Petersburg State University (SPSU). Spheres of research and profes-sional interests: history of avant-gardes, visual poetry, experimental literature in Greece, postwar avant-garde poetry, modern poetry.
11 University emb., St Petersburg, 199034
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Zarutskiy P.S. COUNTER-COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES IN THE WORKS OF MICHAEL MITRAS. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2020;21(1):106-113. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-1-21-106-113
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