Author’s name:
Dmitry A. Tyulin
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
This article is devoted to the analysis and comparison of two phenomena of British counter-cultural poet: the work of David Bowie and the legacy of the British Poetry Revival. David Bowie has gained cult status as a musician and performer, his work bringing together various genres and art forms such as theater, poetry and painting. Bowie’ poetry is proposed to be seen as experimental and multimedia, going far beyond the printed text. This approach to poetry makes him related to the representatives of the British Poetry Revival. This current appeared and existed during the 1960-1970s and is still of interest to modern literary criticism. Within the framework of this phenomenon, innovative achievements were made in the liberation of the poetic language from the isolation of a strictly textual form. The poets of the British Revival actively performed, established happening concerts, and interacted with other art forms such as music and painting, giving rise to a new type of synthetic poetry. A closer examination of Bowie’s poetry reveals much in common with the aesthetic findings of the revivalists who defined the countercultural poetry movement of their time. Special attention is given to the influences common to the revivalists and D. Bowie – and, in particular, to the in-fluence of the key poet of the beat generation, Allen Ginsberg, regarding the way of thinking, the range of topics, and the artistic methods of the poets mentioned. The poem “Briggflatts” by Northumbrian author Basil Banting is described as an innovative work that influenced the perception of poetic texts as sound texts and musical texts. Authors such as Bob Cobbing and Paula Clare are cited as those who most closely interacted with musical forms in their poetry. As a result of the study, it is shown that the poets of the British Revival were presenting the cultural background for the formation of D. Bowie as an independent poetic figure. The perception of poetry as a “fluid” performative process is similar in Bowie’s poetry and works produced as part of the British Poetry Revival.
| Section | CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF LITERARY DISCOURSE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2022-57-1-109-121 |
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| Key words | contemporary British poetry; rock poetry; experimental poetics; David Bowie; British Poetry Revival |
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