Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose

ISBN-13: 9780367881023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Vivienne Brough-Evans

Opis

In her consideration of the surrealist genre of prose literature, Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou. She deploys theories of sacred ecstasy – as developed by George Bataille and the Collège de Sociologie (1937–39) – inflect

Spis treści

Foreword by Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

Part I: The Breakthrough of Dissident Surrealism

1 The Collège de Sociologie and Dissident Surrealism

Part II: The Explosion of Surrealism in Hispanic America and the Divin Fou of Natural Time

2 Hispanic American and Caribbean Surrealism and the Colligative of Alejo Carpentier’s lo real maravilloso

3 Postcolonial Dissident Surrealist Mediums: Geotemporal Conflations of the Isles of Paradise in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps

Part III: The Manifestation of Surrealism in Britain and a Sociological Divin Fou

4 The Brief Moment of British Surrealism, Its Social and Divergent Paths

5 Modalities of the Female Surrealist: The Therianthrope of the Sacred Quest in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet

Part IV: The Rise of Romanian Surrealism and Amour Divin Fou

6 The Balkans and the Romanian Avant-Garde: Communism in South-Eastern Europe

7 Europe’s Eastern Surrealist Meanings: The Gift of the Primordial Waters in Gellu Naum’s Zenobia

Part V: Surrealism’s Revolutionary Consciousness: The Collège de Sociologie’s Extensions to Surrealist Theory and Reading International Surrealism

8 Theorem, Theorie, Theōreō

Indicative Publication History

O autorze

Vivienne Brough-Evans is an independent scholar, UK.