The Language of Surrealism

The Language of Surrealism

Author: Peter Stockwell

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1137392215

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A thorough introduction to the language of surrealism by a leading authority in the field. The author draws on recent work in cognitive poetics and literary linguistics to re-evaluate surrealism in its own historical setting, analysing textual examples and situating them within a framework of the latest theories and stylistic methods.


The Language of Surrealism

The Language of Surrealism

Author: Peter Stockwell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1137392193

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The Language of Surrealism explores the revolutionary experiments in language and mind undertaken by the surrealists across Europe between the wars. Highly influential on the development of art, literary modernism, and current popular culture, surrealist style remains challenging, striking, resonant and thrilling – and the techniques by which surrealist writing achieves this are set out clearly in this book. Stockwell draws on recent work in cognitive poetics and literary linguistics to re-evaluate surrealism in its own historical setting. In the process, the book questions later critical theoretical views of language that have distorted our ideas about both surrealism and language itself. What follows is a piece of literary criticism that is fully contextualised, historically sensitive, and textually driven, and which sets out in rich and readable detail this most intriguing and disturbing literature.


Surrealism and the Book

Surrealism and the Book

Author: Renee Riese Hubert

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780520057197

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"An indispensable tool ... for the student of Surrealism and book illustration ... [and] also for those interested in the complicated intrications between literature and pictorial movements from Romanticism to present-day Postmodernism"--Blurb.


Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

Author: Keith Aspley

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 0810858479

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Despite surrealism's celebration of the subconscious and eschewal of reason, the movement was nevertheless concerned with definitions. Andre Breton included a dictionary-style entry for surrealisme in his 1924 Manifeste du surrealisme and later explored juxtapositions of the absurd and the mundane in the 1938 Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme. To the mountain of literature that seeks to organize the far-reaching intellectual movement, Aspley (honorary fellow, Univ. of Edinburgh) adds this handy volume that organizes the breadth of surrealism into concise entries on artists, writers, artworks, and themes. A chronology highlights events that sparked the surrealist imagination, activities of formal surrealist groups, and exhibitions. An introductory essay and extensive bibliography are included. One of the few English-language reference sources about surrealism published in the last decade, Aspley's dictionary is useful for quick access to key terms and biographies. For a book devoted to a movement characterized by arresting visual imagery, the lack of illustrations is annoying. Even Rene Passeron's 1978 Phaidon Encyclopedia of Surrealism (CH, May'79) reprints artworks in color. For a richly illustrated and comprehensive history, see Gerard Durozi's History of the Surrealist Movement (CH, Nov'02, 40-1316). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students. Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students. Reviewed by A. H. Simmons.


Drawing Surrealism

Drawing Surrealism

Author: Leslie Jones

Publisher: Prestel Pub

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9783791352398

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Drawing, often considered a minor art form, was central to surrealism from its very beginnings. Automatic drawing, exquisite corpses, and frottage are just a few of the techniques invented by surrealists to tap into the subconscious realm. Drawing Surrealism recognizes the medium as a fundamental form of surrealist expression and explores its impact on other media. Works of collage, photography, and even painting are presented in the context of drawing as a metaphor for innovation and experimentation. This volume, in addition to brilliant reproductions of drawings and other works by approximately one hundred artists, includes a substantial historical essay and illustrated chronology by the exhibition's curator, Leslie Jones, as well as informative essays by leading scholars Isabelle Dervaux and Susan Laxton. It also encompasses the contributions of a wide array of artists on a global scale - from the great figures in surrealist history to lesser-known surrealists from Japan, central Europe, and the Americas, where the movement had profound and lasting effects on the arts. Drawing Surrealism, which will become a definitive resource on the subject, offers a deep understanding of the techniques and concerns that made surrealism such an intimate perceptual revolution.


Surrealist Painting

Surrealist Painting

Author: Simon Wilson

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 1998-08-12

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780714827223

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Offers commentary on forty-eight paintings, including works by Ernst, Magritte, Masson, and Matta.


Surrealism

Surrealism

Author: Mary Ann Caws

Publisher: Phaidon

Published: 2004-12

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive survey of the 20th-century's longest lasting art movement.


Staging Surrealism

Staging Surrealism

Author: Donna M. De Salvo

Publisher: Wexner Center

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781881390183

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Exhibition is an exploration of "the salient impulses and achievements that have allowed surrealists a continuing hold on our imaginations. ... Comprises key surrealist paintings, sculptures, and photographs from three leading American museums and three remarkable personal collections" -- p.7-8.


The Language and Literature Reader

The Language and Literature Reader

Author: Ronald Carter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-19

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1000158233

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The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar. Divided into three sections, Foundations, Developments and New Directions, the Reader provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the new theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s, to the most recent and contemporary work in the field. Each article contains a brief introduction by the editors situating it in the context of developing work in the discipline and glossing it in terms of the section and of the book as a whole. The final section concludes with a ‘history and manifesto’, written by the editors, which places developments in the area of stylistics within a brief history of the field and offers a polemical perspective on the future of a growing and influential discipline.