Poetry of the Revolution - Marx, Mainfestos and the Avant-Gardes

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION Manifestos—Poetry of the Revolution 1(10) PART ONE MARX AND THE MANIFESTO 1 The Formation of a Genre 11(12) 2 Marxian Speech Acts 23(10) 3 The History of the Communist Manifesto 33(14) 4 The Geography of the Communist Manifesto 47(22) PART TWO THE FUTURISM EFFECT 5 Marinetti and the Avant-Garde Manifesto 69(25) 6 Russian Futurism and the Soviet State 94(13) 7 The Rear Guard of British Modernism 107(28) PART THREE THE AVANT-GARDE AT LARGE 8 Dada and the Internationalism of the Avant-Garde 135(31) 9 Huidobro's Creation of a Latin American Vanguard 166 PART FOUR MANIFESTOS AS MEANS AND END 10 Surrealism, Latent and Manifest 179(17) 11 Artaud's Manifesto Theater 196(15) PART FIVE A NEW POETRY FOR A NEW REVOLUTION 12 The Manifesto in the Sixties 211(9) 13 Debord's Society of the Counterspectacle 220(21) 14 The Avant-Garde Is Dead: Long Live the Avant-Garde! 241(18) EPILOGUE Poetry for the Future 259(4) NOTES 263(32) BIBLIOGRAPHY 295(14) INDEX 309