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Surrealism and the Book
"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.
Cultural (Dis)Connections
The daughter of German Jewish parents, both of them prominent physicians defending liberal causes, Renie Riese Hubert was bundled out of Nazi Germany as a young girl to be educated in Paris. Her memoirs tell the extraordinary story of a young woman, poet, art connoisseur, teacher, whose life and work reflected the pivotal moments in 20th century art and culture. "Renee Hubert introduces us to a gallery of people she has known, the offbeat and the talented, some famous, some geniuses, many eccentrics, all of them colourful. She paints them in detail, vividly, lovingly, and often with subtle irony . . . she writes with candour and understatement, throwing open a window to a panorama of cultura...
Magnifying Mirrors
Mit Bezügen zu Meret Oppenheim.
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Women in Dada
his book is the first to make the case that women's changing role in European and American society was critical to Dada.
Reading Relationally
How reading literature through the lens of visual art sheds new light on the accomplishments of modernist and postmodernist writers
The Beribboned Bomb
Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s. This book addresses the former, using a 'thick description' of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism and misogyny. These circumstances were determined by 'hegemonic masculinity', an ideological construct which had little to do with individual masculinities. In male Surrealism, the 'beribboned bomb' signified something both attractive and volatile, a specific instance of the Surrealist principle of convulsive beauty. In hegemonic masculinity, similar devices served as metaphors of the sexuality all men were supposed to possess. The intersection of these two axes produced an imagery of unrepentant violence.
Going the Distance
This bold new theoretical study explores dissident subjectivity, that is, the struggle for unique authorial identity in American literary discourse that has existed, according to David Jarraway, since the Romantics. From Emerson’s “Experience” remarking upon the “focal distance within the actual horizon of human life” to Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize address sanctifying the artist’s “sophisticated privileged space,” American literature has continuously recognized a necessary “distance”—the gap between culturally accepted ideas of selfhood and the intractable reality of the self’s never-completed construction in time. Jarraway’s fascinating examination of modernist p...
In the Embrace of the Swan
Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics ‐ with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.
Progress in Love on the Slow Side
Five short stories by a French essayist (1884-1968).
