Mary Ann Caws

Distinguished Professor of English French and Comparative Literature Mary Ann Caws

Rudolf E. Kuenzli

Rudolf Kuenzli

Gloria Gwen Raaberg

These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism byfocusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creativesubjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire orfear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced thetraditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and theunconscious reveal some of the least inhibited masculine fantasies. The first resistance to the malesurrealists' projection of the female figure arose in the writings and paintings of marginalizedwoman artists and writers associated with Surrealism. The essays in this collection explore thecomplexity of these women's works, which simultaneously employ and subvert the dominant discourse ofmale surrealists.Mary Ann Caws is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the GraduateCenter of the City University of New York. Rudolf Kuenzli is Professor of English and ComparativeLiterature and Director of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa. Gwen Raaberg isDirector of the Center for Women's Resources and Research at Western Michigan University.The Essays: What Do Little Girls Dream Of: The Insurgent Writing of Gisï¿½le Prassinos. Finding What YouAre Not Looking For. From Dï¿½jeuner en fourrure to Caroline: Meret Oppenheim's Chronicle ofSurrealism. Speaking with Forked Tongues: "Male" Discourse in "Female" Surrealism? Androgyny:Interview with Meret Oppenheim. The Body Subversive: Corporeal Imagery in Carrington, Prassinos, andMansour. Identity Crises: Joyce Mansour's Narratives. Joyce Mansour and Egyptian Mythology. In theInterim: The Constructivist Surrealism of Kay Sage. The Flight from Passion in Leonora Carrington'sLiterary Work. Beauty and/Is the Beast: Animal Symbology in the Work of Leonora Carrington, RemedioVaro, and Leonor Fini. Valentine, Andrï¿½, Paul et les autres, or the Surrealization ofValentine Hugo. Refashioning the World to the Image of Female Desire: The Collages of AubeEllï¿½ouï¿½t. Eileen Agar. Statement by Dorothea Tanning.

Surrealism and Women

Marcel Proust's combination of solitary genius and passionate observance of social custom has made him an object of fascination to generations of readers captured by his great masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Mary Ann Caws, the acclaimed author of Virginia Woolf, succinctly and vividly captures the details of Proust's life, from his daily routines to the elite social circle that fascinated his youth. Marcel Proust offers readers the unique opportunity to partake in the author's vision-and to see him as his contemporaries did.

Marcel Proust

A Study of Breton and Bachelard

Surrealism and the Literary Imagination

Uses a thematic and chronological approach to a discussion of Picasso's life and art.

Pablo Picasso

"Imbued with Caws's personal observations of the relationship between translators and the authors they translate, Surprised in Translation engages with central questions of language and meaning while extolling the virtues of translation and the joys of reading translations critically."--BOOK JACKET.

Surprised in Translation

The first anthology of its kind, Manifesto features over two hundred artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of countries. The manifesto, a public statement that sets forth the tenets of a forthcoming, existing, or potential movement or "ism"-or that plays on the idea of one-became in various modernisms a crucial and forceful vehicle for artists, writers, and other intellectuals to express their ideas about the direction of aesthetics and society.Included in this collection are texts ranging from Kurt Schwitters's Cow Manifesto to those written in the name of well-known movements-imagism, cubism, surrealism, symbolism, vorticism, projectivism-and less well-known ones-lettrism, acmeism, concretism, rayonism. Also covered are expressionist, Dada, and futurist movements from French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Latin American perspectives, as well as local movements, such as Brazilian hallucinism.Influential, startling, unsettling, amusing, and continually engaging, these modernist manifestos give voice to a fascinating array of ideas and opinions that will prove invaluable to scholars and students of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, literature, and culture.Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, editor, or translator of over forty books, including The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter and The Surrealist Painters and Poets.

A Century of Isms

Manifesto

T. S. Eliot

Saint-John Perse

Poems by the Nobel prizewinner deal with the regeneration of life, the purity of nature, and our relationship with time and the world

Selected Poems

In this book the author looks the metaphor of passage, one that occurs in the poetic act; she also includes the progression of poetry from the "surrealist baroque" to surrealism itself (breton, Aragon, Eluard, Desnos) and on to contemporary poetry. The author explains her use of the word "architexture" as situating the text in the world of other texts the architecture situates the building in its world. "The architexture of a particular work would refer to the structure of the connecting passage, bridge, or corridor between elements as it relates to the material of the text, or of that stretching between two texts". [From flyleaf of book].

Distinguished Professor of English French and Comparative Literature Mary Ann Caws

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