Eugene Jolas

critical writings, 1924-1951

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Eugene Jolas: critical writings, 1924-1951
2009, Northwestern University Press
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Cover of: Critical Essays
Critical Essays: Paris, New York, Berlin 1924-1951
September 30, 2006, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Evanston, Illinois
Series
Avant-garde and modernism collection, AGM collection

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Dewey Decimal Class
809.9112
Library of Congress
PN56.M54 J65 2009, PN56.M54J65 2009

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p. cm.

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OL23213473M
ISBN 13
9780810117716, 9780810125810
LCCN
2009016917
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3118265
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