Abstract

DAVIS GONZALEZ, Ana. Displaced secularization. The vanguard in the anti-modernity process. Valenciana [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.29, pp.7-29.  Epub Apr 08, 2022. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v14i29.575.

The following paper proposes a definition of “avant-garde” based on its attempt to secularize the art from the romantic ideal and sublimity. To do this, it starts from a broad notion of “secularization” linked to the process of modernity, a process of desecration that avant-garde tried to apply to art. We suggest that this attempt was unsuccessful and that avant-garde resulted in a resistance to the modern, in clear contradiction to its discourse of rupture and novelty. The study is divided into three parts: the first one focuses on delimiting the notions of “secularization”, “modernity” and “anti-modernity”; the second on, in defining the avant-garde in relation to its attempt to secularize art; finally, the third one exposes the failure of this attempt and exemplifies it in the literary field through the antithesis between poetry and novel genre.

Keywords : Avant-garde; Modernity; Secularization; Poetry; Novel genre.