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The fictions of Arthur Cravan
Poetry, boxing and revolution
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
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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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Front matter
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Dedication
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Contents
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List of illustrations
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Preface
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List of abbreviations
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Introduction
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1 On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan
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2 Enter Colossus
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3 To be an American in Paris
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4 ‘All words are lies’
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5 ‘Life has no solution’
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6 The vision of struggling movement
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7 ‘Pure affect’
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8 Being as being, and nothing more
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Conclusion
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 20, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526133243
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eBook ISBN:
9781526133243
Keywords for this book
Arthur Cravan; Dada; Surrealism; Nietzsche; Deleuze; subjectivity; metaphor; representation; multiplicity; simulation
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
