Download or read book The fictions of Arthur Cravan written by Dafydd Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive English-language account and critical reading of the legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism.
Download or read book Cravan Mystery Man of the Twentieth Century written by Mike Richardson and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story about the most interesting person you've never heard of: Arthur Cravan, major figure in pre-WWI cutting-edge art circles, was among the greatest mysterious figures of the Twentieth Century. A self-confessed thief, forger, and con-artist, he used a roster of assumed names and false identities. He was known, at various times, as a novelist, poet, painter, art critic, lecturer, publisher, and the lightweight boxing champion of France. Always a rebellious, restless spirit, this dedicated rule-breaker was a political radical whose friendship with Leon Trotsky earned him the surveillance of the U.S. government-even through his immigration to Mexico with his wife, the poet Mina Loy. In 1918, at the age of thirty-one, the fascinating physical giant vanished without a trace, and-despite several supposed sightings over the years-was never seen again. Is it possible that he became the mysterious, reclusive novelist B. Traven, who wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
Download or read book Arthur Cravan Maintenant written by Emmanuel Guigon and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adventurer as well as poet and boxer, Fabian Avenarius Lloyd (1887-1918) – a towering ‘mystic Colossus’ – assumed the pseudonym Arthur Cravan on arriving in Paris in 1909. He was a highly enigmatic man, a uniquely colourful character whose life merged into his work, and whose birth and death remain as obscure as his livelihood. Cravan, nephew of Oscar Wilde, achieved fame through the non-conformist magazine Maintenant, of which he was director, editor and sole contributor. Given his mysterious background, his behaviour and his sense of provocation, Cravan is clearly entitled to a place among the key precursors of Dadaism. Surely the least of Cravan’s feats included entering the ring against world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, selling his poetry in the streets of Paris like a barrow-boy hawking fruit and vegetables, and on numerous occasions giving active voice to his views under the imperious and imperative title : MAINTENANT."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Download or read book Shadow Box written by Antonia Logue and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on one of the greatest and most unusual love stories of the 20th century, this literary novel explores the life of Arthur Cravan--semi-professional boxer, influential art critic, legendary bon vivant, and nephew of Oscar Wilde.
Download or read book Arthur Cravan written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 4 Dada Suicides Selected Texts written by Arthur Cravan and published by Atlas Press (GB). This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vache, Jacques Atlas Anti-Classics This book collects together works by four 'writers' on the fringes of the Dada movement in 1920's Paris. All four took the nihilism of the movement to its ultimate conclusion, their works are remnants of lives lived to the limit and then cast aside with nonchalance and abandon. Yet, their writings - to which they attached so little importance - still exert a powerful allure and were a vital inspiration to the Dada movement.
Download or read book Arthur Cravan written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works of Arthur Cravan written by A. G. O'meara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man sometimes known as Arthur Cravan made a reputation for himself partly through violent theatrics. He shot a gun over the heads of his audience, he threw a boxing match in order to gain funds to traverse the ocean to New York City, and, finally, in an act of great negation, he got lost on a sail boat in the gulf of Mexico and never returned. A defiant proletarian, Cravan writes in such a way that spits in the face of his contemporary artists for their haughtiness and their old age, as well as for their lack of interest in danger and women. It's no wonder that the surrealists and the Situationists gravitated toward him.
Download or read book Traces Remain written by Charles Nicholl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time.His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in 1960s Malaya, from the boyhood of Christopher Marlowe to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, from the remnants of a lost Shakespeare play to the last days of the poet-boxer Arthur Cravan in a Mexican fishing port.Full of insights, curiosities and unexpected discoveries, these thirty pieces written over two decades show the author of The Lodger and Leonardo da Vinci at his inquisitive best.
Download or read book Ecological Poetics or Wallace Stevens s Birds written by Cary Wolfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens’s evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case. Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a “nonrepresentational” conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens’s poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. Ecological Poetics is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology.
Download or read book Insel USA written by Mina Loy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other--about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.
Download or read book Sleight of Fancy written by Cydney Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Texture Chapbook Series #21. First published in 1995 as OEUVRES, this newly reprinted edition tells a single story of a man and woman who have a chance meeting in a bookstore and discover a mutual interest in the early 20th-century poet/boxer Arthur Cravan. Cravan, an inspiration to the Dadaists and Surrealists, disappeared in Mexico in 1917. The man and woman embark on a relationship, and set about translating Cravan's work-with strange and unpredictable results.Text, like an archetypal myth, informs the structure of the main character's life. But texts have an ending and when this one runs out, that character's life is diminished. This is a subtle and haunting work -- Taproot Reviews. Stapled chapbook.
Download or read book Shadow Box written by Antonia Logue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonia Logue's riveting first novel weaves together the lives of three extraordinary characters from the early half of the twentieth century: Jack Johnson, who became the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World; Arthur Cravan, semi-professional boxer, art critic, and nephew of Oscar Wilde; and the beautiful Modernist poet Mina Loy, Cravan's wife and the third figure in this charismatic triangle. What unfolds is a compulsively readable tale of ambition and betrayal, hatred and injustice, vanity and triumph, ranging across the United States and Europe - from the salons of Paris and a bull-fight arena in Spain to elegant Manhattan and Sing-Sing Prison - during the heady period between the two World Wars. Daring, forceful, passionate, and sharply observed, "Shadow-Box "is a brilliant melding of history and imagination.
Download or read book Nethered Regions An Anatomy of Mina Loy written by Sara Crangle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy develops new thinking on Loy's representations of the foundations of existence, exploring topics that include sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice and satire, demonstrating how Loy devises an original feminist satirical mode by which sardonic aggression is aimed at generating intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance. Loy's articulations of 'low' body parts - feet, legs, genitals, bellies and wombs - are explored in chapters that theorise her deployment of 'dissident' sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women's pleasure) and censorship; pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse that is unsung counterpart to the poete maudit.
Download or read book Lay the Marble Tea written by Richard Brautigan and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Millennial Memory Perspectives in Jewish American Fiction written by Heidi Schorr and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diese in englischer Sprache verfasste Dissertation fußt in den Feldern englische Literaturwissenschaft/Amerikanistik, Cultural Studies und Jewish American Studies. Sie untersucht die Repräsentation von Erinnerung in Werken von Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander und Nicole Krauss, Mitgliedern der sogenannten third generation jüdisch amerikanischer SchriftstellerInnen, welche um den Millenniumswechsel publizieren. Der Fokus liegt auf Werken von Nicole Krauss. Symbolische Charaktere und Objekte, welche in Verbindung zu Erinnerung stehen, werden herausgearbeitet und im Detail analysiert. This work is rooted in the fields of English Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and Jewish American Studies. It examines memory representation in exemplary works published around the millennial change by third generation Jewish American writers Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander, and Nicole Krauss. The focus lies on the latter’s work. Symbolic characters and objects connected to memory are discerned and analyzed in detail.
