| Abstrakt: |
The literary work of Vladan Radovanović, one of the main Serbian neo avant-garde authors, developed within the frame of multimedia poetics known as "vocovisual"--an artistic medium in which verbal and visual layers intertwine in the same line of semantics, as explained in Radovanović's eponymous study.2 Some of his most important textual and graphic works were created as a conscious continuation of the little-known--but steady and persistent--tradition of visual European literature, which was largely defined by figural works of the early medieval authors of the Western canon, most notably Alcuin (7th century) and Hrabanus Maurus (8th century). In this essay we examine the influence of medieval visual literature on the neo avant-garde and experimental work of Vladan Radovanović, as well as the rarely explored connections between the syncretic nature of some of the examples of medieval literature and contemporary postmodern projects of visual poetry. We discuss the polyphony, syncretism, and mannerist peculiarity of medieval literature, as well as the creative and comparative reach of Serbian 20th-century poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
