Surrealist Women''s Writing - A Critical Exploration

Informationen zum Autor Anna Watz is Senior Lecturer in English at Linköping University, Sweden Klappentext Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Anna Watz 1 'The dung beetle's snowball': the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahun's essay-poetry Felicity Gee 2 Identity convulsed: Leonora Carrington's The House of Fear and The Oval Lady Anna Watz 3 Recasting the human: Leonora Carrington's dark exilic imagination Jeannette Baxter 4 Colette Peignot: the purity of revolt Michael Richardson 5 Suzanne Césaire's surrealism: tightrope of hope Kara M. Rabbitt 6 Kay Sage alive in the world Katharine Conley 7 Outside-in: translating Unica Zürn Patricia Allmer 8 Ithell Colquhoun's experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetry Mark S. Morrisson 9 Leonor Fini's abhuman family Jonathan P. Eburne 10 'Open sesame': Dorothea Tanning's critical writing Catriona McAra 11 Magic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornet's surrealist ecology Kristoffer Noheden BibliographyIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna Watz
• Mitarbeit: Anna Watz (Herausgeber), Watz Anna (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526132024
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3202-4
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Manchester Capitalism; Manchester University Press
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Surrealism, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada