![]() ![]() |a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. |a Front Matter Contents List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations Introduction On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan Enter Colossus To be an American in Paris 'All words are lies': Maintenant, April 1912-July 1913 'Life has no solution': Maintenant, November 1913-April 1915 The vision of struggling movement: Barcelona 1916 'Pure affect': New York 1917 Being as being, and nothing more Conclusion Index 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. ![]() 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. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. |a 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. |a Online resource title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 4, 2019) |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. ![]()
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