Poetry of the Revolution : : Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes / / Martin Puchner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Puchner, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2005]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Translation/Transnation ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 7 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 tables.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX