In the following essay, Last surveys Ball's life and career, emphasizing “the variety of styles and forms which he adopted.”
Of all the Dadaists, Hugo Ball was the one whose li...
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In the following essay, Mann examines the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism, observations on morality, emphasis on the irrational, and critique of modern culture on Ball's thought...
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In the following essay, Balakian explores the Modernist poetics of Ball, Vicente Huidobro, and Pierre Reverdy.
Three poets of the early decades of this century shed light on the major paradoxes of ...
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In the following essay, Rabinbach analyzes Ball's polemic against German nationalism in Critique of the German Intelligentsia, establishing the work's historical contexts and noting its ...
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In the following essay, White explicates four of Ball's Expressionist poems, observing the ways in which these works “offer a compendium of styles and mannerisms and reflect the diversit...
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Critical Essay by Rex W. Last
