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Book SynopsisTells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book ranges from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, and highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art.
Trade Review[A] bold venture into relatively unexplored terrain. Poetry of the Revolution is an intelligent and informative work, offering by far the best survey of its subject now available. -- Kheya Bag New Left Review
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION: Manifestos--Poetry of the Revolution 1 PART ONE: MARX AND THE MANIFESTO CHAPTER 1: The Formation of a Genre 11 CHAPTER 2: Marxian Speech Acts 23 CHAPTER 3: The History of the Communist Manifesto 33 CHAPTER 4: The Geography of the Communist Manifesto 47 PART TWO: THE FUTURISM EFFECT CHAPTER 5: Marinetti and the Avant-Garde Manifesto 69 CHAPTER 6: Russian Futurism and the Soviet State 94 CHAPTER 7: The Rear Guard of British Modernism 107 PART THREE: THE AVANT-GARDE AT LARGE CHAPTER 8: Dada and the Internationalism of the Avant-Garde 135 CHAPTER 9: Huidobro's Creation of a Latin American Vanguard 166 PART FOUR: MAN I FESTOS AS MEANS AND END CHAPTER 10: Surrealism,Latent and Manifest 179 CHAPTER 11: Artaud's Manifesto Theater 196 PART FIVE: A NEW POETRY FOR A NEW REVOLUTION CHAPTER 12: The Manifesto in the Sixties 211 CHAPTER 13: Debord's Society of the Counterspectacle 220 CHAPTER 14: The Avant-Garde Is Dead:Long Live the Avant-Garde! 241 EPILOGUE: Poetry for the Future 259 NOTES 263 BIBLIOGRAPHY 295 INDEX 309
