Eugene Jolas
Subtitle: critical writings, 1924-1951
By: edited and with an introduction by Klaus H. Kiefer and Rainer Rumold.
Contributors: Kiefer, Klaus H., 1947-; Rumold, Rainer.
Series: Avant-garde and modernism collection; AGM collection
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Evanston, Illinois
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810117716; 9780810125810
Subjects: Jolas, Eugène, -- 1894-1952; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rambles through literary Paris; title: Revolution of the word: transition manifestoes and history; title: Proclamation ("Revolution of the word," June 1929); title: The novel is dead? Long live the novel (November 1929); title: Preface to the new transition (March 1932); title: What is the revolution of language? (February 1933); title: Frontierless decade (April-May 1938); title: Transition: an Occidental workshop, 1927-1938; title: The language of the night; title: The revolution of language in Elizabethan theater (June-July 1933); title: The king's English is dying: long live the great American language (June 1930); title: The language of the night; title: Wanted: a new symbolical language! (March 1932); title: Wanted: a new communicative language! (March 1932); title: Confession about grammar (February 1933); title: Introduction to the negro who sings; title: Race and language (June 1936); title: Inquiry into the spirit and language of the night (April-May 1938); title: Preface to Words from the deluge; title: Logos (June 1929); title: From Jabberwocky to "lettrism" (January 1948); title: From Romanticism to the avant-garde; title: Romanticism and the dream (June 1936); title: Romanticism is not dead; title: Pan-romanticism in the atomic age; title: Romanticism and metapolitics (after 1949); title: Stars and angels: homage to G. Th. Fechner, romantic savant and visionary; title: Prolegomenon, or white Romanticism and the mythos of ascension (undated); title: Surrealism and romanticism (undated); title: Surrealism ave atque vale; title: Crisis of man and language: verticalist/vertigralist manifestoes; title: On the quest (December 1927); title: Notes on reality (November 1929); title: Preface to transition stories; title: Literature and the new man (June 1930); title: Night-mind and day-mind (March 1932); title: Poetry is vertical (March 1932); title: The primal personality (February 1933); title: Twilight of the horizontal age (February 1933); title: Vertigralist transmutation (July 1935); title: Paramyths (July 1935); title: Workshop (July 1935); title: Vertigral (June 1936); title: Vertigralist pamphlet; title: The quest and the myth; title: Poetry of ascent; title: Threefold ascent: verticalist manifesto (August 1941); title: Literary encounters; title: Novalis; title: Homage to Novalis (November 1929); title: Novalis, the mystic visionary (undated); title: Novalis, or the white Romanticism (January 15, 1951); title: Goethe; title: The case of Goethe: was he a heroic figure or merely a philistine? (March 1932); title: Gide; title: André Gide, mystic and dionysian (July 13, 1924); title: Kafka; title: Franz Kafka's stories and ascending Romanticism; title: Trakl; title: Georg Trakl, poetry (January 15, 1951); title: Benn; title: Gottfried Benn (August 1927); title: Jünger; title: Ernst Jünger and the twilight of nihilism (November 1951); title: Breton; title: André Breton's surrealism in 1950 (June 1950); title: Joyce; title: The revolution of language and James Joyce (February 1928); title: Marginalia to James Joyce's work in progress (February 1933); title: Homage to the mythmaker (April-May 1938); title: My friend James Joyce (March-April 1941); title: Elucidation of James Joyce's monomyth: explication of Finnegans Wake (July 1948); title: Literature, culture, and politics; title: Super-occident (February 1929); title: Goodbye to yesterday (October 1940); title: Toward a metaphysical renascence? (October 1940-March 1941); title: Super-occident and the Atlantic language (June 1941); title: Arts and letters in Latin America (July 1941); title: German letters in ruins: a report from Frankfurt (July 4, 1948); title: The migrator and his language (undated); title: Across frontiers; title: Some notes on existentialism, Martin Heidegger, and poetry sales (November 1, 1949); title: Reemergence of Heidegger (November 1949); title: Heidegger in the atomic age (November 1949); title: Irrealism, immoralism, concretism (November 8, 1949); title: Origin and aim of history (November 15, 1949); title: A German nationalist (December 6, 1949); title: The absent avant-garde (February 7, 1950); title: German letters today (February 21, 1950); title: Negro culture (March 14, 1950); title: Franco-German cultural exchanges (March 21, 1950); title: German literary trends (May 23, 1950); title: Appendix: biography of Eugène Jolas.