Dada as Text, Thought and Theory
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Dada as Text, Thought and Theory

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
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Dada as Text, Thought and Theory

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Legenda
  6. Research Monographs in French Studies
  7. Published in this Series
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: Down with Subversion
  11. 1 Decoding Dada: Women Dada Poets and Homosocial Dada
  12. 2 The Madman Next Door: Tristan Tzara and Jacques Lacan
  13. 3 Being, Being Better, and the Importance of Nothingness: Dada, Buddhism, Living
  14. 4 Uncertainty, on Principle: Dada, Science and Critical Theory
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index