Contents
Acknowledgments, ix
Introduction, xi
1 Modernism and Modernity: The Problem of Definition, 1
2 Modernism as Diagnosis, 31
3 Modernism as Response, 71
4 Lord Chandos and His Discontents, 89
5 Modernism, Language, and Experimental Poetry:
On Leaping over Banisters and Learning How to Fly, 101
6 Kandinsky's Oeuvre 1900-14:
The Avant-Garde as Rear Guard, 145
7 Radical Cheek, or Dada Reconsidered, 171
8 Dada and Futurism, 200
9 Dada and Expressionism, 236
10 Dada and Mysticism, 266
11 Tricksters, Carnival, and the Magical Figures of Dada Poetry, 292
12 Dada and Politics, 304
13 Dada and the Last Post of Modernism, 351
Notes, 373
Bibliographical Note, 465
Index, 467