Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde

by Kurt Beals

Book Overview

Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde demonstrates that the poetics of the Dada movement was 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 Italian Futurism and German Expressionism is widely acknowledged, its formative role in Dada poetics has been largely neglected. Drawing on media...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810141051
• ISBN13: 9780810141056
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"