Poetry of the Revolution
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-12260-1 (ISBN)
Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Martin Puchner argues that the manifesto--what Marx called the "poetry" of the revolution--was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires. When it intruded into the sphere of art, the manifesto created an art in its own image: shrill and aggressive, political and polemical. The result was "manifesto art"--combinations of manifesto and art that fundamentally transformed the artistic landscape of the twentieth century. Central to modern politics and art, the manifesto also measures the geography of modernity. The translations, editions, and adaptations of such texts as the Communist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto registered and advanced the spread of revolutionary modernity and of avant-garde movements across Europe and to the Americas.
The rapid diffusion of these manifestos was made "possible by networks--such as the successive socialist internationals and international avant-garde movements--that connected Santiago and Zurich, Moscow and New York, London and Mexico City. Poetry of the Revolution thus provides the point of departure for a truly global analysis of modernism and modernity.
Martin Puchner, is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of "Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama". He is coeditor of "Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage" (2006), and "The Norton Anthology of Drama" (forthcoming).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION: Manifestos--Poetry of the Revolution 1 PART ONE: MARX AND THE MANIFESTO CHAPTER 1: The Formation of a Genre 11 CHAPTER 2: Marxian Speech Acts 23 CHAPTER 3: The History of the Communist Manifesto 33 CHAPTER 4: The Geography of the Communist Manifesto 47 PART TWO: THE FUTURISM EFFECT CHAPTER 5: Marinetti and the Avant-Garde Manifesto 69 CHAPTER 6: Russian Futurism and the Soviet State 94 CHAPTER 7: The Rear Guard of British Modernism 107 PART THREE: THE AVANT-GARDE AT LARGE CHAPTER 8: Dada and the Internationalism of the Avant-Garde 135 CHAPTER 9: Huidobro's Creation of a Latin American Vanguard 166 PART FOUR: MAN I FESTOS AS MEANS AND END CHAPTER 10: Surrealism,Latent and Manifest 179 CHAPTER 11: Artaud's Manifesto Theater 196 PART FIVE: A NEW POETRY FOR A NEW REVOLUTION CHAPTER 12: The Manifesto in the Sixties 211 CHAPTER 13: Debord's Society of the Counterspectacle 220 CHAPTER 14: The Avant-Garde Is Dead:Long Live the Avant-Garde! 241 EPILOGUE: Poetry for the Future 259 NOTES 263 BIBLIOGRAPHY 295 INDEX 309
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.12.2005 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Translation/Transnation |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 tables. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 482 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-12260-1 / 0691122601 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-12260-1 / 9780691122601 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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