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Author Jones, Dafydd W., author

Title The fictions of Arthur Cravan : poetry, boxing and revolution / Dafydd W. Jones
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019

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Contents Front Matter; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan; Enter Colossus; To be an American in Paris; 'All words are lies': Maintenant, April 1912-July 1913; 'Life has no solution': Maintenant, November 1913-April 1915; The vision of struggling movement: Barcelona 1916; 'Pure affect': New York 1917; Being as being, and nothing more; Conclusion; Index
Summary The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery - from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze - with thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches - of Cravan's first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia's elegiac film Entr'acte - The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer's eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 4, 2019)
Subject Cravan, Arthur, 1887-1920? -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Cravan, Arthur, 1887-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
Cravan, Arthur, 1887-1920? fast
Subject Surrealism.
Dadaism.
Surrealist.
Dada.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Dadaism
Surrealism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526133243
1526133245
9781526133250
1526133253