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ISBN/EAN: 9781137392190

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978-1-137-39219-0
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Book author: peter sem
Book title: surrealism

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Author: Peter Stockwell
Title: Language, Style and Literature; The Language of Surrealism
Publisher: Red Globe Press; Macmillan Education
202 Pages
Publishing year: 2016-10-14
London; GB
Language: English
84,10 € (DE)
99,99 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Verstehen; experience; writing; Orient; linguistics; surrealism; coherence; history; Research in English and American Literature; biography; B; Literary History; Literary History; Literature, Cultural and Media Studies; Auseinandersetzen; BB

The Language of Surrealism explores the revolutionary experiments in language and mind undertaken by the surrealists across Europe between the wars. Highly influential on the development of art, literary modernism, and current popular culture, surrealist style remains challenging, striking, resonant and thrilling – and the techniques by which surrealist writing achieves this are set out clearly in this book. Stockwell draws on recent work in cognitive poetics and literary linguistics to re-evaluate surrealism in its own historical setting. In the process, the book questions later critical theoretical views of language that have distorted our ideas about both surrealism and language itself. What follows is a piece of literary criticism that is fully contextualised, historically sensitive, and textually driven, and which sets out in rich and readable detail this most intriguing and disturbing literature.

PART I: THE ORIGINS OF SURREALISM.- 1. The pre-history of surrealism.- 2. The biography of surrealism.- 3. Language in surrealist thought.- PART II: WRITING SURREALISM.- 4. Automaticity.- 5. Collage.- 6. Dissonance.- PART III: READING SURREALISM.- 7. Coherence and confusion8. ambient experience.- 9. Disorientation.- PART IV: TAMING SURREALISM.- 10. Surrealism in the service of the world.

A rich and fascinating exploration of the literature that is written by a worldclass expert in the field this is the first book of its kind

Places surrealist style in context, and considers the topic using sociolinguistic as well as cognitive perspectives

Draws on original research, but doesn't assume any knowledge of linguistics key terms and frameworks are introduced clearly and carefully, ensuring that the book is engaging and accessible for students and general readers