Poetry of the revolution: Marx, manifestos and the avant-gardes/

Main Author: Puchner, Martin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006
Series:Translation/transnation
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Manifestos-Poetry of the revolution
  • Part one: Marx and the Manifesto
  • 1. The Formation of a genre
  • 2. Marxian speech acts
  • 3. The History of the Communist Manifesto
  • 4. The Geography of the Communist Manifesto
  • Part two: The Futurism effect
  • 5. Marinetti and the avant-garde manifesto
  • 6. Russian futurism and the Soviet state
  • 7. The Rear guard of British modernism
  • Part three: The avant-garde at large
  • 8. Dada and the internationalism of the avant-garde
  • 9. Huidobro's creation of a Latin American vanguard
  • Part four: Manifestos as means and end
  • 10. Surrealism, latent and manifest
  • 11. Artaud's manifesto theater
  • Part five: A New poetry for a new revolution
  • 12. The Manifesto in the sixties
  • 13. Debord's society of the counterspectacle
  • 14. The Avant-garde is dead: Long live the avant-garde
  • Epilogue: Poetry for the future.