William Carlos Williams and the Cult of the New

IF 0.1 0 POETRY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2019-11-23 DOI:10.1353/wcw.2019.0009
Tony Barnstone
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abstract:This article explores the ideology of the avant-garde, with particular reference to sacralization of novelty, technoscience and creativity in modernism in the work of William Carlos Williams. It explores ways in which inherent contradictions in the ideology of the avant-garde problematized substitutions for religious faith, and how Williams navigated questions of belief and doubt in his invented faith. Through readings of poems such as "Light Becomes Darkness" and "The Rose," Williams evokes the perpetual present of the reading experience as a way of escaping the cycle of creation and destruction that threatened to undermine all "new" work and make it representative of the old. Through a semi-spiritual sacralization of the moment of encounter between the reader and the text, the Cult of the New becomes the Culture of Renewal in which the past is not rejected in favor of an essentialized time of the "new."
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摘要:本文探讨了前卫艺术的意识形态,特别是威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯作品中对现代主义中新奇、技术科学和创造力的神圣化。它探讨了先锋派意识形态中固有的矛盾如何对宗教信仰的替代提出问题,以及威廉姆斯如何在他发明的信仰中处理信仰和怀疑的问题。通过阅读《光明变成黑暗》和《玫瑰》等诗歌,威廉姆斯唤起了阅读体验的永恒存在,这是一种逃避创造与毁灭循环的方式,这种循环威胁着所有“新”作品,使其成为旧作品的代表。通过对读者与文本相遇的那一刻的半精神上的神圣化,对新事物的崇拜变成了一种更新的文化,在这种文化中,过去并没有被拒绝,而是赞成一个“新”的本质化的时间。
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