Surrealist Collage in Text and Image by Elza Adamowicz
Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. She considers verbal collage, pictorial collage, and the hybrids they generate, and discusses the works of Max Ernst and Andr Breton, as well as those of Aragon, Brunius, Eluard, Hugnet, Magritte, P ret, Styrsky and others. Focusing on the recycling of art-historical icons, the parodic reworking of narrative clich s, the concept of defamiliarisation of the banal, or the relations between part bodies and totalities, she offers close readings of individual collages, and links specific aspects of collage practice to central issues of surrealist aesthetic and political thought. Throughout this well illustrated study Adamowicz confronts the 'monstrous' nature of collage, grounded on excess and composed of irretrievable fragments and hovering signs.-
Sartre: Literature and Theory
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 17601820
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Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France
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System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
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The Death of Stephane Mallarme
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Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
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Tradition and Desire
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Flaubert and the Gift of Speech
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Politeness and its Discontents
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French Renaissance Tragedy
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Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
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Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose
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Genealogies of the Text
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Proust, the Body and Literary Form
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Reading the French Enlightenment
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Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
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Politics and Narratives of Birth
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Reading Paul Valery
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Pictorialist Poetics
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Poetry and Fable
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Sartre and 'Les Temps Modernes'
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The Knowledge of Ignorance
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Irony and Ideology in Rabelais
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Flaubert's Characters
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Leo Spitzer
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Baudelaire and Intertextuality
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Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry
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Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing
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The Limits of Narrative
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Mallarme, Manet and Redon
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Baudelaire in 1859
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Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
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Claude Simon
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History and Ideology in Proust
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The Object of Art
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
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The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
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Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715
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Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
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Where Flaubert Lies
"Here Elza Adamowicz offers an interestingly analyzed study of the various techniques of cutting, assembling, and pasting the parts that go to make up the kinds of collage, visual and verbal, constructed in surrealism, and..in dada before it. She is particularly good at the discussion of the subversive undermining of 'established narratives' and of organic wholes by the 'processes of substitution and displacement,' the theoretical background for it, and the individual exmaples adduced to support her statements." Mary Ann Caws, L'Esprit Createur
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 | 9780521619875 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521619874 |
| Title | Surrealist Collage in Text and Image |
| Author | Elza Adamowicz |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In French |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2005-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 268 |
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