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Abstract
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 Dada’s 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.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Legenda |
Number of pages | 172 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781907975837 |
Publication status | Published - 22 Jul 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Research Monographs in French Studies |
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Volume | 39 |
Bibliographical note
This book was shortlisted for the 2016 R.H. Gapper Book Prize (UK Society for French Studies). The prize is awarded annually for the best book produced by a French Studies scholar based in the UK and Ireland. The book has been reviewed in Journal of European Studies (Richard Sheppard, March 2016), Forum for Modern Language Studies (April 2016), Modern Language Review (Elza Adamowicz, October 2016), French Studies (Andrew Rothwell, December 2016). ISBN 978-1-907975-83-7.Keywords
- Dada
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Academic Medical School - University Of Amsterdam
Stephen Forcer (Lecturer)
6 Dec 2017 → 12 Dec 2017Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
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Shortlisted for the 2016 R. H. Gapper Book Prize
Forcer, Stephen (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)