Download or read book The Avant-garde Tradition in Literature written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paradoxical title not only mocks the pretensions of Avant-garde movements that claim to be entirely new, but it also gives them the legitimacy of belonging to a long tradition of modernism. The wide variety of essays collected here range from Northrop Frye on archetypes to Bob Cobbing on concrete poetry.