Dada as Text, Thought and Theory

ISBN-13: 9781907975837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 172 str.

Stephen Forcer

Opis

The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada work in its original form, and offering English translations throughout, this major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media and topics -- including poetry, film, philosophy, and quantum physics -- in order to get beyond Dada's typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women writers and other marginalized figures combines with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary.

Spis treści

Introduction: Down with Subversion 1. Decoding Dada: Women Dada Poets and Homosocial Dada 2. The Madman Next Door: Tristan Tzara and Jacques Lacan 3. Being, Being Better, and the Importance of Nothingness: Dada, Buddhism, Living 4. Uncertainty, on Principle: Dada, Science and Critical Theory 5. Conclusion

O autorze

Stephen Forcer