Willard Bohn

One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Theory and Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Given that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today.

As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was not just a French phenomenon but one that eventually encompassed much of the world. Concentrating on the movement's theory and practice, this extraordinarily broad-ranging book documents the spread of Surrealism throughout the western hemisphere and examines keys texts, critical responses, and significant writers. The latter include three extraordinarily talented individuals who were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (Andre Breton, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz). Like their Surrealist colleagues, they strove to free human beings from their unconscious chains so that they could realize their true potential.

One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry explores not only the birth but also the ongoing life of a major literary movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501393747
• Artikelnr.: 65737173

Autorenporträt

Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University, USA. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including The Avant-Garde Imperative (2013); Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry and Architecture (2005), Italian Futurist Poetry (2005), The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry (1993), and The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928 (1993). He has also published 130 articles in journals such as Romantic Review, Comparative Literature, French Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Art Bulletin, MLN, Hispanic Review, the Revue de
Littérature Comparée, and Comparative Critical Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. André Breton and Automatic Writing 2. Revisiting the
Surrealist Image 3. Paul Eluard and Surrealist Love 4. Surrealism and the
Poetic Act 5. José María Hinojosa and Early Spanish Surrealism 6. Federico
García Lorca 7. J. V. Foix and Catalan Surrealism 8. Portuguese Experiments
with Surrealism 9. Octavio Paz 10. South American Surrealists Coda
Acknowledgments Bibliography Index