The fictions of Arthur Cravan : Poetry, boxing and revolution EPUB
by Dafydd Jones
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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. -- .
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:18/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781526133243
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
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- ISBN:9781526133243