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From:Hispanofila (Issue 176) Peer-ReviewedThe key moment of the first section of Luis Cardoza y Aragon's avant-garde novel Pequena sinfonia del Nuevo Mundo presents the protagonist, a young poet named Dante, passing by the banks of New York's Hudson River. He...
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From: His Günter Grass: The Writer in a Pluralist SocietyIn approaching Grass as a poet and a dramatist, it is extremely difficult to forget that Grass has gained pre-eminent recognition as a novelist: in what follows I have not attempted to do so. Certainly the most immediate...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5679)One night in October 1936, the poet David Gascoyne took the train up to Hampstead from Teddington, where he was staying with his parents, and called in at the house of the painter Roland Penrose, whom he had first met in...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines Leonora Carrington's Down Below through a psychiatric lens. In particular, it looks at clinical accounts of Cardiazol-induced shock treatments next to Carrington's own testimony of the helplessness...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 25, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe question of whether Surrealism played a positive or a negative role in the dissemination of Freudian ideas sounds rather blunt or normative, but it is a question I would like to pose less to judge Surrealism by...
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From: Books Abroad[(essay date Summer 1974) In the following essay, Knipp examines the themes of negritude and the alienation of the modern African in Tchicaya's poetry.] The Congolese Felix Tchikaya U'Tamsi is the most prolific and...
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From: The New RepublicFrequently the history of literature (or the history of human gullibility) spews up a novel that becomes an “intellectual bestseller”—a book that all persons with literary or intellectual pretensions feel obliged to...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 122. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Simone de BeauvoirL'Invitée [She Came to Stay] (novel) 1943Le Sang des autres [The Blood of Others] (novel) 1945Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex] (prose) 1949Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée...
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From:symploke (Vol. 11, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSexual deviance and social transgression often formed a symbiotic relationship in the surrealist assault on normative culture. The best term to describe this relationship is "convulsive beauty," a phrase that appears in...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Czeslaw Milosz is an outstanding figure of 20th-century Polish literature. In his youth he belonged to the so-called `Second Vanguard', the poetry of which was characterized by neo-symbolistic tendencies of a...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedIN THE HISTORY OF SURREALISM AND THE popular cinema, critics since Ado Kyrou have noted the surrealists' enthusiasm for the "primitive" era of silent movies. (1) The surrealists felt an affinity for the newly born...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 74, Issue 1)M arguerite Young's oceanic novel and incomparable magnum opus, Miss Macintosh, My Darling, remains, more than fifty years after its publication, in 1965 (and after its protean, eighteen-year, two-volume incubation),...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 103. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:J. M. BarrieThe Little White Bird, or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens (juvenile fiction) 1902Peter Pan, or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (play) 1904Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (juvenile...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWriting Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature BY FLORA VEIT-WILD Oxford: James Currey, 2006. What is the psychology of "natives" of the postcolony, of those who are either partially or...
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedArtists were influenced by Dada, one of the major founts of modern avant- garde drama and forerunner to surrealism and other extensions of the theatre of the absurd. A mark of abstraction, Dada revealed elements of anti-...
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From:Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art (Vol. 2) Peer-ReviewedAt the heart of the Paris Surrealist project of the 1930s was an attempt to defamiliarize the ordinary, everyday experience. Writer and poet Andre Breton, one of the critical leaders of the Surrealist group, called this...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay analyzes the influence of surrealism on Bazin and Barthes to argue that their commitment to photographic realism is more accurately described as an investment in surrealism. This revised take on the...
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From: Günter Grass[(essay date 1969) In the following excerpt, Tank discusses the reaction of European critics to The Tin Drum. He also examines Grass's working methods, the process of the novel's composition, and the book's main themes.]...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)One of the most considerable French writers of the mid-20th century, Louis Aragon produced a large and varied body of work that is representative of the political aspirations and artistic orientations of the...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)Paul Durcan has emerged as the most dynamic, distinctive, and urgent voice in contemporary Irish poetry. His voice is now so rooted in current southern Irish experience that one forgets his years of exile and obscurity....