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- The fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, boxing and revolution
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Manchester University Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of illustrations
- pp. viii-ix
- List of abbreviations
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- 1 On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan
- pp. 18-43
- 2 Enter Colossus
- pp. 44-69
- 3 To be an American in Paris
- pp. 70-106
- 7 ‘Pure affect’: New York 1917
- pp. 222-256
- 8 Being as being, and nothing more
- pp. 257-277
- Conclusion
- pp. 278-302
Additional Information
ISBN
9781526133243
Related ISBN(s)
9781526133236
MARC Record
OCLC
1088892458
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-16
Language
English
Open Access
No