ABSTRACT
This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly, by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise, and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work, by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own.
The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts, as well as literature, film, and political and intellectual history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|108 pages
Concepts and Practices
section |52 pages
Exploratory Themes
section |27 pages
Protestations
chapter 8|8 pages
Limits Not Frontiers
section |28 pages
Creative Applications
part II|46 pages
Lessons from Paris
section |27 pages
Tensions and Dissensions
section |18 pages
Public Interfaces
part III|153 pages
Situated Contexts
part IV|60 pages
Critical Dialogues
section |20 pages
The Politics of Collecting
chapter 35|10 pages
L'élan surréaliste
chapter 36|9 pages
The Surrealist Experience of Indigenous North America
section |39 pages
Gender and Sexuality
chapter 40|10 pages
Dismembered Muses and Mirrors That Bite
part V|26 pages
Further Reaches