Surrealism by Elza Adamowicz
This collection of essays, inspired by André Breton’s concept of the limites non-frontières of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than its divides and exclusion zones. Some of the essays originated as papers given at the colloquium ‘Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers’ held at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, in November 2001.Surrealism is foregrounded as a trajectory rather than a fixed body of doctrines, radically challenging the notion of frontiers. The essays explore real and imaginary journeys, as well as the urban dérives of the surrealists and situationists. The concept of crossing, central to a reading of the dynamics at work in Surrealism, is explored in studies of the surrealist object, which eludes or elides genres, and explorations of the shifting sites of identity, as in the work of Joyce Mansour or André Masson. Surrealism’s engagement with frontiers is further investigated through a number of revealing cases, such as a political reading of 1930s photography, the parodic rewriting of the popular ‘locked room’ mystery, or the surrealists’ cavalier redrawing of the map of the world. The essays contribute to our understanding of the diversity and dynamism of Surrealism as an international and interdisciplinary movement.
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Hear the Tap, Feel the Scratch
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Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini
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'Keeping the Sources Pure'
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Formless
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Depicting Desire
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European Intertexts
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She's Leaving Home
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Laughter and Power
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Borges and Dante
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Making Sense
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After Intimacy
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Understanding Our Selves
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Re-reading Pio Baroja and English Literature
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Entre mélancolie et connaissance; Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie
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Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema
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Viva Pinter
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Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities
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Readers, Writers, Salonnieres
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Songbirds on the Literary Stage
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Existentialist Comics
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Leonardo Sciascia’s French Authors
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The Pleasure in/of the Text
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Nomadic Literature
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Lingua Barbara or the Mystery of the Other
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Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe L'Ecriture De Soi Dans L'Europe Moderne
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The Epistolary Muse
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The Fausts of Gerard de Nerval
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Voices of Dissent
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Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing across the Borders of Englishness
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Symphonie der Worte
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Translators, Interpreters, Mediators
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Writing on the Move
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The Tragic Discourse L'Experience Du Tragique
The Editor: Elza Adamowicz is Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London. She has written extensively on surrealist art, film and texts, including Surrealist Collage: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse (1998) and Ceci n’est pas un tableau: les écrits surréalistes sur l’art (2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9783039103287 |
| ISBN 10 | 3039103288 |
| Title | Surrealism |
| Author | Elza Adamowicz |
| Series | European Connections |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verlag Peter Lang |
| Year published | 2006-07-10 |
| Number of pages | 238 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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