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Pulp surrealism : insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris / Robin Walz.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walz, Robin, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Surrealism (Literature).
- French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Social change.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Surrealism and Popular Culture; 1. The Baedeker of Hives; 2. The Lament of Fant'mas; 3. Murder, Mirth, and Misogyny; 4. Is Suicide a Solution?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520921863
- 0520921860
- 9781597348409
- 1597348406
- OCLC:
- 475928776
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