A History Of The Surrealist Novel

Author : Anna Watz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1009082647

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A History of the Surrealist Novel by Anna Watz Pdf

"A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its 20 thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel"--

Author : J. H. Matthews
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UOMDLP:adc3457:0001.001

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Surrealism and the Novel by J. H. Matthews Pdf

Author : Renee Riese Hubert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520329515

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Surrealism and the Book by Renee Riese Hubert Pdf

Author : Anna Watz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009084925

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A History of the Surrealist Novel by Anna Watz Pdf

A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel.

Author : Maurice Nadeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610393959

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The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau Pdf

Author : Leonora Carrington
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374642

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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Pdf

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”

Author : Ruth Brandon
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 080213727X

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Surreal Lives by Ruth Brandon Pdf

Brandon follows the lives of the Surrealists--such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Man Ray--through the movement, which culminated at the end of World War II. 24 pages of photos.

Author : Gérard Durozoi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:1330353740

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History of the Surrealist Movement by Gérard Durozoi Pdf

Author : Maurice Nadeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014995300

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The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau Pdf

Author : Peter Melville Logan,Olakunle George,Susan Hegeman,Efraín Kristal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118779071

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The Encyclopedia of the Novel by Peter Melville Logan,Olakunle George,Susan Hegeman,Efraín Kristal Pdf

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

Author : Viktor Kocsis
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656464044

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Defining Surrealism: Relations between Nadja, Photography and the Surrealist Movement by Viktor Kocsis Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject French Studies - Literature, grade: Gut, University of Graz (Institut für Romanistik), course: Allg. LW SE: Studien zur Literaturwissenschaft (Literatur und Fotografie), language: English, abstract: “Surrealism especially has entered our everyday language; we talk of ‘surreal humour’ or a ‘surreal plot’ to a film. This very continuity means that it is difficult to place them at one remove from us in ‘history’.” (HOPKINS 2004: Introduction) Defining Surrealism has become, as HOPKINS’s statement illustrates, a very challenging task due to its wide prevalence in contemporary speech and language, which makes it difficult to isolate Surrealism historically and to distinguish between its intended meanings within certain historical epochs. As the following section will outline, Surrealism has been continuously influenced and shaped from generation to generation and has therefore been marked by different characteristics throughout history. The long historical chronology (cf. ASPLEY 2010: XV) of the surreal has indeed caused a lot of confusion with regard to the usage of the term, which should always be contextualized within the respective examined epoch in order to “grasp” its intended “spirit”. This research paper aims at examining and defining the early twentieth century Surrealist Movement more closely, which has been described in the Manifeste du surréalisme in 1924 by ANDRÉ BRETON, who seems to be widely acknowledged as the father of Surrealism. After a brief theoretical section outlining a short historical chronology of Surrealism and commenting on BRETON’s influence on the Surrealist Movement in 20th Century France, chapter 3 will present an analysis of Nadja (1928), one of BRETON’s most important surrealist novels forming the “climax of the literary movement of Surrealism in France” (REENTS 2009: 31). The analysis will be carried out from a predominantly photographic angle to examine how photography relates to the concept of the surreal and how it helps define Surrealism in BRETON’s time.

Author : J. A. G. Ardila
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199641925

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A History of the Spanish Novel by J. A. G. Ardila Pdf

"The origins of the Spanish novel date back to the early picaresque novels and Don Quixote, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the history of the genre in Spain presents the reader with such iconic works as Galdaos's Fortunata and Jacinta, Clarain's La Regenta, or Unamuno's Mist. A History of the Spanish Novel traces the developments of Spanish prose fiction in order to offer a comprehensive and detailed account of this important literary tradition. It opens with an introductory chapter that examines the evolution of the novel in Spain, with particular attention to the rise and emergence of the novel as a genre, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the bearing of Golden-Age fiction in later novelists of all periods. The introduction contextualizes the Spanish novel in the circumstances and milestones of Spain's history, and in the wider setting of European literature. The volume is comprised of chapters presented diachronically, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and others concerned with specific traditions (the chivalric romance, the picaresque, the modernist novel, the avant-gardist novel) and with some of the most salient authors (Cervantes, Zayas, Pardo Bazaan Galdaos, and Baroja). A History of the Spanish Novel takes the reader across the centuries to reveal the captivating life of the Spanish novel tradition, in all its splendour, and its phenomenal contribution to Western literature"--Back cover of book jacket.

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802150268

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Nadja by André Breton Pdf

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789602654

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The Absence of Myth by Georges Bataille Pdf

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of a profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be.

Author : Keith Aspley
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810858473

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Historical Dictionary of Surrealism by Keith Aspley Pdf

Despite surrealism's celebration of the subconscious and eschewal of reason, the movement was nevertheless concerned with definitions. Andre Breton included a dictionary-style entry for surrealisme in his 1924 Manifeste du surrealisme and later explored juxtapositions of the absurd and the mundane in the 1938 Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme. To the mountain of literature that seeks to organize the far-reaching intellectual movement, Aspley (honorary fellow, Univ. of Edinburgh) adds this handy volume that organizes the breadth of surrealism into concise entries on artists, writers, artworks, and themes. A chronology highlights events that sparked the surrealist imagination, activities of formal surrealist groups, and exhibitions. An introductory essay and extensive bibliography are included. One of the few English-language reference sources about surrealism published in the last decade, Aspley's dictionary is useful for quick access to key terms and biographies. For a book devoted to a movement characterized by arresting visual imagery, the lack of illustrations is annoying. Even Rene Passeron's 1978 Phaidon Encyclopedia of Surrealism (CH, May'79) reprints artworks in color. For a richly illustrated and comprehensive history, see Gerard Durozi's History of the Surrealist Movement (CH, Nov'02, 40-1316). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students. Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students. Reviewed by A. H. Simmons.