Poetry of the revolution : Marx, manifestos, and the avant-gardes / Martin Puchner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-307) and index.

Introduction: Manifestos-Poetry of the revolution -- Part one: Marx and the Manifesto -- 1. The Formation of a genre -- 2. Marxian speech acts -- 3. The History of the Communist Manifesto -- 4. The Geography of the Communist Manifesto -- Part two: The Futurism effect -- 5. Marinetti and the avant-garde manifesto -- 6. Russian futurism and the Soviet state -- 7. The Rear guard of British modernism -- Part three: The avant-garde at large -- 8. Dada and the internationalism of the avant-garde -- 9. Huidobro's creation of a Latin American vanguard -- Part four: Manifestos as means and end -- 10. Surrealism, latent and manifest -- 11. Artaud's manifesto theater -- Part five: A New poetry for a new revolution -- 12. The Manifesto in the sixties -- 13. Debord's society of the counterspectacle -- 14. The Avant-garde is dead: Long live the avant-garde -- Epilogue: Poetry for the future.

Martin Puchner tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the political manifestos of the 19th and 20th centuries. He argues that the manifesto was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires.

English.

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