...Ingrid Eberz Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Ingrid Eberz PEUT-ON ENTENDRE ECOUTER? UNE ETUDE SUR L'ETRE ET LE LANGAGE DANS LE SURREALISME L es concepts surrealistes de l'reil sauvage et de l'oreille interieure peuvent etre consideres comme determinants dans la...

...Elizabeth Leake Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Elizabeth Leake 'NOR DO I WANT YOUR INTERPRETATION': SUICIDE, SURREALISM, AND THE SITE OF ILLEGIBILITY IN AMELIA ROSSELLI'S SLEEP Suicide and Sleep Sleep, Amelia Rosselli's collection of English language poems, written...

... remember when he first spoke about Surrealism. And then I knew. I remember when he first spoke about Surrealism and then I knew he had read all those books. I remember, vividly. Being challenged. I remember vividly being challenged and feeling incapable. The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 ©...

...," moving from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century to the present day: "Renaissance, naturalisme, objectivisme, surrealisme, parfaite progression vers Ie Robot" (172). In Celine's decadent history of style, surrealism is the families: "Wendel! Wendel! Rigolade! Petit sire! Diversion miteuse...

... for reality hearkens to Breton's Manifeste du surrealisme and provides an alternative to the means of evasion proposed by the "pope of surrealism." "Ce monde moderne," wrote Breton in his programmatic text, enfin, diable! que voulez-vous que j'y fasse? [ ] Les sans-fils? Bien. La syphilis? Si vous voulez. La...

... of a certain avant-garde, endorse a fundamental value of purification, which will become associated, in theoretical terms, with the refusal of representation. But what about that other current of the avant-garde? What about Surrealism? This is where modernism ceases to be a merely historical category...

..., 2000. Pp. 315. Octavio Paz once called Surrealism an "order of chivalry" and viewed its quest to recover the lost provinces of imagination, to restore the dominion of the unconscious in artistic expression a modern-day"quete du Graal." Vincent Aurora's welcome new book takes up some of the themes...

.... The author also describes Kermadec's association with Desnos and his unwillingness to adhere to the surrealist movement. In fact, some of the evidence for an aesthetic affinity between Ponge and Kermadec arises from their respective aversions to surrealism. In the longest chapter of the book, devoted...

.... I felt privileged, and that friendship never changed, throughout the years. Improbable Mike always was. When we were on a panel once at the MLA, something about surrealism or Dadaism or both, the Chicago surrealists not only appeared but unleashed a record of barnyard noises not to be believed...

...-Provence, 1992). Suzanne Ravis (ed.) Le Reve de Grenade: Aragon et Ie Fou d'EIsa (Actes du colloque de Grenade, 1994; Presses de l'Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 1996). Gavin Bowd et Jeremy Stubbs (ed Louis Aragon. Du Surrealisme au rea- alisme socialiste, du Libertinage au Mentir vrai, des...

... Mortimer, Armine, "The Essay According to Sollers: A Personal and Parabolic Genre," 33-49 Leake, Elisabeth, "'Nor do I want your interpretation': Suicide, Surrealism, and the Site of Illegibility in Amelia Rosselli's Sleep," 445-59 Livorni, Ernesto, "'In se da simulacro a fiamma vera / errando...

...-Strauss, his grasp of the intricacies of language ranked in first place. A fan of French popular culture, of Dadaism and Surrealism, equally at ease with the sublime and the trivial, he knew how to illustrate a complex concept with a reference to the books of his childhood, for example, Le Sapeur Camember...

... of semiological models. "Debacles": Tel Quel, Valery and Surrealism. Thus as a true "structuralist," Riffaterre is not a mere "formalist" even though he advocates a formal method as in "Pour une approche formelle de l'histoire litteraire"18 (PT, 89-109). A good debunking of some of the methodological excesses...

... Melies, and her discussion of Simonian tropes that resonate with masters of the "burlesque," like Chaplin and Keaton, is fascinating. She also considers how Simon's penchant for describing insects and eyes is indebted to the Surrealism of Louis Buiiuel, how the author's approach to nudity and sex owes...

... Lautreamont could have found the surreal "rubis de champagne." One has no choice at this rate but to go with the signs and watch as the intertext trumps the chronology of individual writing habits. Jonathan Culler transforms the simple principle of looking at a literary text before concluding things from...

... (for instance how surrealism and the French ethnographic tradition influenced the negritude movement). In The Columbia Encyclopedia of French Thought (2006), edited by Lawrence Kritzman, on the other hand, issues relating to the The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University...

... political, let's say ethical, and aesthetical. Aragon is not the first to have suggested this cross-over. Without going back as far as Plato, Diderot, Apollinaire, or Andre Breton's bivalent study, Le Surrealisme et la Peinture, the viewing of art, the understanding of art, the theorizing of art has never...

.... Daix draws between Dadaism, Surrealism, and Communism. I have no difficulty at all in one sense explaining the party's commitment to representational art, harmonic music, and literature that reflects reality, uses conventional plots, and carries a socially progressive message. Aragon was committed...

... refractory to surrealism, while Mesures constitutes one of the privileged sites for post-surrealist experimentation. Where they concord, however, is in the prominent place they gave to Anglo-American poetry in their efforts to reflect developments in the Englishspeaking world. Whitman, Dickens, Cummings...

... progress, internationalism and democratic values. By contrast, arriere-gardism is essentially anti-historical, nationalist, and monarchist in its sympathies. Referring to the examples of Surrealism and Tel Quel, and their affiliation with the Communist Party, Kaufmann sees this association as a key...