On Collage as a New Language of Modernist Literature

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210121.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Collage, Modernity, Reproduction and Displacement, Contre-discourse, Anti-narativity

Abstract

With the acceleration and fragmentation in modern society, language is undergoing a paradigm shift under the impact of digital media. It is no coincidence that collage comes with modernity and becomes a new possibility of expression. In the context of modern and contemporary art and literature, it is necessary and feasible to deepen the academic research of collage. The modern times we live in is full of clues and juxtapositions of objects. Using traditional language to describe or record, it has long been unable to do well, and failed gradually. The grand system constructed by language through the referential function of words is falling apart. As a result, collage appeared in the expression system and became an “anti-narativity” expression. This formulation is similar to the “contre-discours”, that Foucault once discussed. Collage, as a possible poetic theory and aesthetic concept, will also become an entrance to explore its connection with modernity and post-modernism, and rediscover the position of collage in the collage creation in literature and art. On the contrary, It also uses collage as the entrance to re-enter modern and contemporary literature and art.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lu Xiang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/23
TI  - On Collage as a New Language of Modernist Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 105
EP  - 110
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210121.022
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.022
ID  - Xiang2021
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