Sacred surrealism, dissidence and international avant-garde prose / Vivienne Brough-Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brough-Evans, Vivienne, author.

Series:

Ashgate studies in surrealism

Studies in surrealism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962--Influence.

Bataille, Georges.

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Surrealism (Literature).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 252 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

Pt. I. The breakthrough of dissident surrealism. 1. The Collège de Sociologie and dissident surrealism

pt. II. The explosion of surrealism in Hispanic America and the Divin fou of natural time. 2. Hispanic American and Caribbean surrealism and the colligative of Alejo Carpentier's Lo real maravilloso ; 3. Postcolonial dissident surrealist mediums : geotemporal conflations of the isles of paradise in Alejo Carpentier's The lost steps

pt. III. The manifestation of surrealism in Britain and a sociological Divin fou. 4. The brief moment of British surrealism, its social and divergent paths ; 5. Modalities of the female surrealist : the therianthrope of the sacred quest in Leonora Carrington's The hearing trumpet

pt. IV. The rise of Romanian surrealism and Amour divin fou. 6. The Balkans and Romanian avant-garde : communism in South-Eastern Europe ; 7. Europe's eastern surrealist meanings : the gift of the primoridal waters in Gellu Naum's Zenobia

pt. 5. Surrealism's revolutionary consciousness : the Collège de Sociologie's extensions to surrealist theory and reading international surrealism. 8. Theorem, theorie, theōreō.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472456595

1472456599

OCLC:

921422742