Watz / Unknown Surrealist women's writing

A critical exploration
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3203-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Watz, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

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
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Watz is Senior Lecturer in English at Linköping University, Sweden