Literary Origins of Surrealism. a New Mysticism in French Poetry / Anna Balakian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balakian, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1947]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Describes the relation of surrealism to the social and psychological revolt of the first post war period as revealed by its deep antipathy for bourgeois society in order to show that surrealist writings have contributed no so much to each other as to one general revolution in poetic mysticism and lead to the development of a new philosophy of reality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Introduction

I. Surreality

II. The Romantic Background

III. Baudelaire and the Break with Tradition

IV. A Spiritual Crisis

V. The Road to the Absolute

VI. The Road to Chaos

Envoi

Bibliography

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88570-9

OCLC:

1100453077