Tradition's behest

[Eagleheart]

Now my literature teacher has a pretty annoying habit of commending some artistic and literary movements with arguments no different than personal appealing and Traditionally does not offer a comprehensive view of them or anything that would require some evaluation on our part. We have recently discussed Dadaism and I will appreciate if you recommend me some authors or works that would provide me with at least general view of the typical for the style of Dadaism...

[stlukesguild]

You might simply Google "Dada Literature" or "Dada". From my own experience Dada seemingly was a rather small and short-lived artistic movement which has nevertheless had lasting repercussions in the field of the visual arts especially largely due to the impact of Marcel Duchamp. The only "card carrying" Dada writer of any real stature of whom I am aware is the poet Tristam Tzara. There are other writers indebted to or related to Dada including Surrealists Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Breton, and Max Jacob, Futurist Fillipo Marinetti, and even Louis Celine. The line between Dada, Surrealism, and a lot of other Expressionists and even Existentialist literature is rather fine if your teacher has not defined just exactly how he or she "qualifies" what Dada is. Only true members of the Dada groups in Zurich, Berlin, Paris, New York during the 1920s? Or a broader interpretation?

[Eagleheart]

She only presented its characteristics of simpleness, how the name is coined from French, but did not elaborate on the subject...and provided a rather broad time reference that could not help much...Her pedagogy is restricted to "It will be good for you..." without further explanations of this "goodness" , so fragmented knowledge is unavoidable/ scattered definitions are particularly challenging/... But thank you for the information...I think I have a starting point now and...the names will certainly help...

[Bastet]

I remember one of the characters of Tom Stoppard's play Travesties was named Tristam Tzara after the dadaist poet. Eagleheart, I don't know if you've read it, but that would give you a little more info on some of the influence the movement had in literature.

[Eagleheart]

No I haven't read it... But thank you for the suggestion...I may use this approach later