HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Free Indirect Speech, Dialectic, Hyperbole
15 Dec 2020
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There is ongoing tension between conventionality and (formal) innovation in literary and cultural history. There have been periods of fierce iconoclasm from early times on, in. Byzantium for instance, where the notion of iconoclasm originates. Or one could look at the protestant reformation movements, which often meant the wilful destruction of religious artefacts. More generally, while in one particular era or place adherence to an original, and the fidelity of its imitation, becomes the rule, other times and places expect art to be innovative and original, to smash" tradition to pieces. One of the turning points from conventionalism to innovation, when forms are broken", is the age of the avant-garde, in the first half of the 20th century, with movements such as futurism, surrealism and dadaism. We look into the revolutionary poetry of hungarian lajos kass k and we read a feminist manifesto by the non- conformist and bohemian mina loy.
