Avant-Gardism of the Classics and Classicality of the Avant-Garde: Communication Strategies of Moscow Conceptualism in the Context of the Evolution of Styles in Russian Poetry from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century.

Abstract: The predominance of subjectivity in Pushkinʼs ‘Little House in Kolomna’ provides this poem with avant-gardist features: the poem does not have an addresser and an addressee who share a common code. Pushkinʼs poem brought about a whole “family” of imitations, which includes Timur Kibirovʼs ‘Crappers’. Contrary to ‘Little House in Kolomna’ and despite its postmodernistic poetic devices ‘Crappers’ has, however, an addresser, addressee and common code. From this point of view, Pushkinʼs poem is more avant-gardist than Kibirovʼs. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]