The fictions of Arthur Cravan Poetry, boxing and revolution / Dafydd W. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Dafydd, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dadaism.

Surrealism.

Cravan, Arthur, 1887-1920--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526133250

1526133253

9781526133243

1526133245

OCLC:

1088892458