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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Patrick Conrad: pop poetry, intermediality and literary countercultures in Flanders and Germany
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Abstract
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| International political and artistic movements have to translate their concepts into specific national or regional contexts. In the case of the global pop artists movement and its ambivalent relation to the capitalist consumer society, the content of conceptual binaries like overground vs. underground or hegemonic culture vs. counterculture changes as they get adjusted in light of different cultural systems. We plan to illustrate these processes, straddled by so many artists, by examining the work of two poets who transferred North-American pop cultural aesthetics to Europe: the Flemish poet Patrick Conrad (born 1945) and the German poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975). We will especially be focusing on their attitude toward political engagement in the arts and demonstrating how these openly apolitical artists were forced to nonetheless take a critical position, which was thus necessarily ambivalent and far less revolutionary than the position of the situationists. A central element of these aesthetics consists of specific strategies of intermediality, as we will show. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Confrontational readings: literary neo-avant-gardes in Dutch and German / Arteel, I. [edit.]; et al. [edit.]
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Source (series)
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Germanic literatures / Modern Humanities Research Association ; 21
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Publication
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Cambridge
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2020
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ISBN
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978-1-78188-401-0
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Volume/pages
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p. 194-228
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