Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes, 1912-1928

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Anna M. Lawton, Herbert Eagle
New Academia Publishing, LLC, 2005 - 353 pagine
This is the second edition of Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes 1912-1928, originally published by Cornell University Press (1988). Futurism as a world movement profoundly affected the course of twentieth-century art and culture. This collection made available for the first time in English the writings of the Russian Futurists, which supplied the theoretical base of their movement. In her extensive introduction, Lawton has highlighted the historical development of the movement and has related Futurism both to the Russian national scene and to avant-garde movements worldwide. She describes how the Russian Futurists declared their enmity to the aesthetic canons of nineteenth-century realism and to the mysticism of the Symbolists. Eagle's concluding essay discusses how Futurism's most significant theoretical ideas, through the medium of Russian Formalism, had a lasting impact on the subsequent development of structuralism and semiotics. The lively and imaginative translations by Lawton and Eagle capture the distinctive polemical style of the Russian Futurists-jarring, provocative, neologistic-and reproduce their often idiosyncratic typography. Among many Futurists represented are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Viktor Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, David Burliuk, Vadim Shershenevich, and Boris Pasternak.
 

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Introduction by Anna Lawton
1
Slap in the Face of Public Taste D Burliuk et
52
The Letter as Such V Khlebnikov and A Kruchenykh
65
A Drop of Tar V Mayakovsky
100
The Tables I Severyanin et al
109
Ignatyev
118
Overture Anonymous L Zak
133
From Moment Philosophique M Rossiyansky
140
From Kruchenykh the Grandiosaire I Terentyev
178
From Shiftology of Russian Verse A Kruchenykh
184
What Does Lef Fight For? N Aseyev et al
191
Whom Does Lef Warn? Lef
199
Language Creation B Arvatov
217
Lef to Battle Lef
232
CuboFuturism and Russian Formalism
281
Notes
305

Foreword to Automobile Gait V Shershenevich
148
Two Final Words V Shershenevich
155
Turbopaean Anonymous N Aseyev S Bobrov B
161
Two Words about Form and Content E Bik
172
Selected Bibliography
333
Name Index
341
Title Index
347
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Herbet Eagle is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His publications include articles in Wide Angle, Film Quarterly, Film Studies Annual, Cross Currents, Dispositio, Semiotica, and Slavic and East European Journal. Book chapters have appeared in several anthologies. Eagle is also the editor of the volume Russian Formalist Film Theory (1981).

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