Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose (Studies in Surrealism) - Image 1

£137.45

Routledge Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose (Studies in Surrealism)

Name: Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose (Studies in Surrealism)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 137.45 GBP
Availability: InStock

Themes & Concepts

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£137 today · previous high £137 · all-time low £110

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 638 days • 638 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 638 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £120 (281 days, 44.0%)

Price range: £110 - £137

Price levels: 7 different prices over 638 days

Description

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the Collège de Sociologie (1937–39) as a critical tool in shedding new light on the literary oeuvre of non-French writers who worked both within and against a surrealist framework. The minor surrealist genre of prose literature is considered herein, rather than surrealism's mainstay, poetry, with the intention of fracturing preconceptions regarding the medium of surrealist expression. The aim is to explore whether International surrealism can begin to be more fully explained by an occluded strain of 'dissident' surrealist thought that searches outside the self through the affects of ekstasis. Bretonian surrealism is widely discussed in the field of surrealist studies, and there is a need to consider what is left out of surrealist practice when analysed through this Bretonian lens. The Collège de Sociologie and Georges Bataille's theories provide a model of such elements of 'dissident' surrealism, which is used to analyse surrealist or surrealist influenced prose by Alejo Carpentier, Leonora Carrington and Gellu Naum respectively representing postcolonial, feminist and Balkan locutions. The Collège and Bataille's 'dissident' surrealism diverges significantly from the concerns and approach towards the subject explored by surrealism. Using the concept of ekstasis to organise Bataille's theoretical ideas of excess and 'inner experience' and the Collège's thoughts on the sacred it is possible to propose a new way of reading types of International surrealist literature, many of which do not come to the forefront of the surrealist literary oeuvre. Review 'Provocative, dissident, surprising, international in focus, historically grounded: Vivienne Brough Evans' book is everything one would wish for in a study of literary surrealism and avant-garde prose. It will help redraw the map of twentieth-century literary history.' Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK 'Through highly original readings and inspired conjunctions of literary sources, Vivienne Brough-Evans has wrought a surprising, rich and thoughtful study; she has most usefully extended the borders of surrealism as they have been drawn till now, and re-oriented concepts of the sacred and its role in imagining and making community.' Marina Warner, CBE, President, British Comparative Literature Association, UK About the Author Vivienne Brough-Evans is an independent scholar, UK.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472456599
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 March 2016
Listed Since: 11 September 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose (Studies in Surrealism)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Surrealism and Ecology (Curating and Interpreting Culture)

Concepts of the World Volume 42: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940 (FlashPoints)

Routledge - The Situationist International in Britain Book

Slavko Kopac: Hidden Treasure. Informal Art, Surrealism, Art Brut

Against Repression: Surrealism, Sublimation and the Recuperation of Desire: 3 (Art and Thought / Art et pensée: Histories of the Avant-Garde / histoires des avant-gardes)

Dada, Surrealism and the Cinematic Effect

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism (Studies in Surrealism)

Surrealism: Key Concepts

Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations

Surrealism (Cambridge Critical Concepts)

The Language of Surrealism: 1 (Language, Style and Literature)

Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema

Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories, and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (Transnational Surrealism)

Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group

Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (The MIT Press)

Le surrealisme / catalogue de l'exposition

Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility' and War in the 1960s (Transnational Surrealism)

Subversive Uses of Nerve Psychology in Dada and Surrealism (Studies in Surrealism)

Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work: Historical and Policy Perspectives

Otherness in Hollywood Cinema

Remade in America: Surrealist Art, Activism, and Politics, 1940-1978

Mikhail Larionov and the Cultural Politics of Late Imperial Russia

Meret Oppenheim – My Album: From Childhood to 1943