... non-European and non-Western components from its modern discourse. In this article, several drawings and paintings of the modern Egyptian artist Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar are discussed. The core of the discussion, however, centers on four of al-Gazzar's surrealist drawings that also include surrealist...

...Brom Weber Life among the Surrealists: A Memoir . By Josephson Matthew . New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston , 1962 . Pp. 403 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 560 The South Atlantic Quarterly Ford believed that Christism was a product...

...Jack J. Roth Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 The Revolution of the Mind : The Politics of Surrealism Reconsidered Jack J. Roth Attempts to fathom the politics of the Surrealist movement in France have generally fallen between two stools. Historians of art and litera­ ture have...

... battery of whose existence men had hitherto been unaware except in the fitful form of dreams and reveries. By establishing rapport with the genii of the unconscious, the surrealist poets came into their own. By their unconditional faith in the power of the unconscious, they believed that they could grasp...

.... New York: King s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. xii, 140. $2.75. The author s thesis is that the writings of the Surrealists and their predecessors have contributed to a general revolution in poetic mysticism which has not only affected the form of art, but has also developed a new philosophy of reality...

... to Arnold, this version introduced a “new surrealist poetics, which reaches its apogee” here, then “diminishes” in the next edition, and “is eclipsed” in 1956 (Césaire 2013b: 104). 3. The first Parisian edition of the poem, published by Bordas in March 1947...

... of truth and reality, the latter being viewed precisely as effects of the processes of such construction. In broaching such issues, Taussig employs the surrealist principle of montage to create a disorderly text which allows the processes of ethnographic writing and narration to be dis­ rupted...

... by Richardson Michael and translated by Fijałkowski Krzysztof Richardson Michael , 1 – 33 . London : Verso . Rosemont Franklin Kelley Robin D. G. , eds. 2009 . Black, Brown, and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora . Austin : University of Texas Press...

... and satisfying a biography as this reviewer has seen in many a day. John Shelton Curtiss. Literary Origins of Surrealism: A New Mysticism in French Poetry. By Anna Balakian. New York: King s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. xii, 140. $2.75. The author s thesis is that the writings of the Surrealists and their predecessors...

... of Surrealist writ­ ing to Surrealist art and no mention of any carry-over into the literature of other countries. Indeed, Dr. Balakian confines herself entirely to France (with the exception of the relatively brief sections in which she attempts to refute the thesis that the German background of the move­ ment...

... is but old priest writ large. The intention is to shun systems and orders altogether, to assert the lonely individual against a society too satisfied with itself, its ends and its means. In this sense, the anti-utopians are the Surrealists of our time. The main aim of the Surrealists, Maurice Nadeau tells...

... by the intertwined branches of the young trees, drawn so unrealistically (unintentionally) that they seem like dancers in a surrealist ballet. 34 The South Atlantic Quarterly Everyone of Rousseau s canvases has elements raising it high above the million square miles of children, folk, or amateur art. Painting...

..., into a gateway to the fields of liberty. From Schelling s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) to Breton s Second Surrealist Manifesto (1930), the aesthetic of moder­ nity is construed as the site of the marvelous, the point where oppo­ sites cease to be perceived as contradictory, the site of beauty, where...

... was that the cinema was rendering the slowness of traditional writ­ ing obsolete and thus had the potential to help redefine literature as a contemporary form of culture.15 In fact, what film offered Celine was a model of speed. It was not, as it was for the surrealist practitioners of automatic writing, the chal­...

... for in poetry. If, as Jarrell indicates, there is a good deal of emphasis on the unconscious, dream-structure, the thoroughly subjective, all of which is carried to fantastic lengths in Surrealist poetry, the poet s attitudes, as Jarrell correctly diagnoses the situa­ tion, are usually anti-scientific, anti...

..., or the inducements toward “sur-real circumstances” created in the incongruities of surrealist metaphors in André Breton. Césaire’s poetry and poetics are explicitly aligned with this tradition of French modernism, yet they diverge from it to the extent that they emerge from and respond to historical...

... immigrant affiliated with the surrealist movement. (An interesting mix of progressive European intellectuals immigrated to New York.) What is really the connection between Celine and Miller then, in fact, is that, in a certain way, Miller was produced in France as a writer who very clearly came into being...

... the Surrealists is his skilfully organized and vividly written effort a successful one to dispel the myth that he and other American ex­ patriates were incipient beatniks. In its broad outlines the book is accurate and significant. In many matters of detail, however, Josephson is too cryptic, thus blurring gen­...

.... Try harder to achieve the surrealistic solution; strive for a literature that is increasingly divorced from reality; reshape the Imaginary Library the canon of great works agreed upon by literary professionals so that Tristram Shandy is more universally admired than Tom Jones. There is good precedent...

... renditions of our daily experiences, but they offer themselves as, to use the critic s words, constituted objects of understanding. However surrealistic and contrary to the principles of good writing these stories may appear to be, they, as Stengel successfully demonstrates, are repre­ sentative...