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Book SynopsisCovering the history of the surrealist novel from its emergence in the 1920s to its contemporary iterations, this book provides pioneering research by major academics in the field. The volume will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Anna Watz; Part I. Marvellous Beginnings: 1. Autobiography Katharine Conley; 2. Diverging genealogies of the surrealist unconscious Jean-Michel Rabaté; 3. Automatism, autobiography, and thanatography in the surrealist novel Abigail Susik; 4. Urban nature: the city in the surrealist novel Effie Rentzou; 5. Nostalgia and childhood in the surrealist novel David Hopkins; 6. Surrealist collage narrative Elza Adamowicz; Part II. Transgression and Excess: 7. The surrealist novel and the gothic Neil Matheson; 8. Surrealism's Anti-bildungsroman Natalya Lusty; 9. The mother figure in the surrealist novel Anna Watz; 10. British surrealism at war Jeannette Baxter; 11. Surrealist narratives of trauma Patricia Allmer; Part III. Science, Alchemy, Nature: 12. Surrealism and the science fiction novel Gavin Parkinson; 13. Pataphysics Donna Roberts; 14. Alchemical narratives Victoria Ferentinou; 15. Animals and ecology in the surrealist novel Kristoffer Noheden; Part IV. Transnational Surrealism: 16. Nature and surrealism in the Latin American novel of the tropics María Clara Bernal; 17. Surrealism, existentialism, and fictions of blackness Jonathan P. Eburne; 18. Social critique in the Japanese post-war surrealist novel Felicity Gee; 19. The world of the surrealist novel Delia Ungureanu; 20. Feminist-Surrealism in the contemporary novel Catriona McAra; Afterword. Novels eclipsed by the sun of poetry? Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron.
