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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. Stephen Forcer is Lecturer in French at the University of Birmingham.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Dada as Text, Thought and Theory
• Author: Stephen Forcer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9781907975837
• ISBN: 1907975837
• ID: 02091086
• Publisher: Maney Publishing
• Weight: 512 g
• Dimensions: 258 × 178 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 2015

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