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Wireless Dada - Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
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Wireless Dada - Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
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Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde demonstrates
that the poetics of the Dada movement were profoundly influenced by
the telegraph and the technological and social transformations that
it brought about in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
While telegraphy's impact on other avant-gardes such as Italian
futurism and German expressionism is widely acknowledged, its
formative role in Dada poetics has been largely neglected. Yet the
telegraph exerted an unmistakable influence on the Dada movement,
providing a fundamentally new paradigm for understanding language
that proved well suited to an avant-garde in search of
revolutionary means of expression. Drawing on methods and insights
from media history and theory, avant-garde studies, and German
literary studies, Kurt Beals shows how the telegraph and the
cultural discourses that surrounded it shaped the radical works of
this seminal avant-garde movement. The "nonsense" strain in Dada is
frequently seen as a response to the senseless violence of the
First World War. However, Beals argues, it was not just the war
that turned Dada poetry into a jumble of senseless signals-it was
also the wireless.
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