The project Experimental Catalan Poetry 1970-1990: Discourses, Representations, Reception, Infrastructures of Dissemination and Sociocultural Framework  (PEC) (MCI, FFI2009-07086) combines approaches from Literary Historiography, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature to address experimental poetics from the decades of the 1970s and 1980s: those that emerged within the timespan of the first experimental poets of the postwar period, such as Joan Brossa and Guillem Viladot, and the polipoetic experiences of the 1990s (Eduard Escoffet, Josep Pedrals, J.R.Roig…). The location of experimental poetry on the margin of the Catalan literary canon, that both rejects it and needs it in order to become complete, facilitates its open-minded approach to languages and practices such as French-originated textualism, letterism and spatialism, Brazil-rooted concretism and Italian visive poetry. Out of the several meanings the word “experimentation” may have, the project focuses not only on the re-reading of the poetics that contribute to the Catalan literary system with diverse forms of textual rupture (such as the playful approach to format, code and support, or the integration of visual elements), but also the new ways of the communication of the poem (through the vindication of performance and orality, for example). The project concentrates on the following authors, among others: Vicenç Altaió, Josep Albertí, Josep M. Calleja, Enric Casasses, Jordi Domènech, Patrick Gifreu, Carles Hac Mor, Damià Huguet, Joan Palou, Santi Pau, Perejaume, Marcel Pey, Jordi Pope, Benet Rossell, Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja, Josep-Lluís Seguí, Víctor Sunyol and Andreu Terrades.

This research intends to further explore the field of study opened by the project HUM2006-06108FILO, dedicated to the Catalan experimental narrative (DENC).