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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101316514153

ISBN-139781316514153

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Book TitleHistory of the Surrealist Novel

Number of Pages423 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSemiotics & Theory

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorAnna Watz

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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LCCN2022-037990

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition23/eng/20220815

Dewey Decimal809.3/91163

Table Of ContentIntroduction Anna Watz; Part I. Marvellous Beginnings: 1. Autobiography Katharine Conley; 2. Diverging genealogies of the surrealist unconscious Jean-Michel Rabaté; 3. Automatism, autobiography, and thanatography in the surrealist novel Abigail Susik; 4. Urban nature: the city in the surrealist novel Effie Rentzou; 5. Nostalgia and childhood in the surrealist novel David Hopkins; 6. Surrealist collage narrative Elza Adamowicz; Part II. Transgression and Excess: 7. The surrealist novel and the gothic Neil Matheson; 8. Surrealism's Anti-bildungsroman Natalya Lusty; 9. The mother figure in the surrealist novel Anna Watz; 10. British surrealism at war Jeannette Baxter; 11. Surrealist narratives of trauma Patricia Allmer; Part III. Science, Alchemy, Nature: 12. Surrealism and the science fiction novel Gavin Parkinson; 13. Pataphysics Donna Roberts; 14. Alchemical narratives Victoria Ferentinou; 15. Animals and ecology in the surrealist novel Kristoffer Noheden; Part IV. Transnational Surrealism: 16. Nature and surrealism in the Latin American novel of the tropics María Clara Bernal; 17. Surrealism, existentialism, and fictions of blackness Jonathan P. Eburne; 18. Social critique in the Japanese post-war surrealist novel Felicity Gee; 19. The world of the surrealist novel Delia Ungureanu; 20. Feminist-Surrealism in the contemporary novel Catriona McAra; Afterword. Novels eclipsed by the sun of poetry? Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron.

SynopsisCovering the history of the surrealist novel from its emergence in the 1920s to its contemporary iterations, this book provides pioneering research by major academics in the field. The volume will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel., A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel.

LC Classification NumberPN56.S87H57 2023