Mary Ann Caws

Paul Éluard

Patricia Ann Terry

Capital of Pain, is considered one of the key texts of surrealism. This is the first new translation into English of this work in over 30 years and the only edition available in the English language. This edition presents the text in its entirety in a bilingual format and includes an extensive essay on Eluard's works by Mary Ann Caws. This book has had a lasting effect on poets and readers since it exploded unto the literary scene in 1926 and has never been out of print in Europe since.

Capital of Pain

André Breton

Jean Pierre Cauvin

Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the English language. Here, in a bilingual French-English format are 73 poems representing all styles and stages of the writer's career.

A Bilingual Anthology

Poems of André Breton

Pierre Reverdy

Selected Poems

An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind's deepest powers

Essential Surrealist Writings

The Milk Bowl of Feathers

Paul Colinet

M. Kasper

Paul Nougé

Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets - Nouge + Colinet + Scutenaire

Ideas Have No Smell

Tristan Tzara

The only English language source for Tzara's majestic and powerful epic poem "Approximate Man." This completley revised title (originally published in 1973) also contains an extensive collection of other writings by Tzara not often found in the English language. Translator and editor Mary Ann Caws also provides an essay new to this edition that helps set the context of "Approximate Man." A critical introduction and extensive notes on text variants are included.

Approximate Man and Other Writings

René Char

The Description for this book, Poems of Rene Char:, will be forthcoming.

Poems of René Char

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

Philosophy, Art, and Literature (Reading Plus, Vol 3)

Perspectives on Perception

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 aøcrucial 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.

A Century of Isms

Manifesto

Edith Wharton

Diane de Margerie

Essays about the French and their culture, written during World War I.

French Ways and Their Meaning

A compilation of love poetry by some of the twentieth century's leading surrealist writers and artists explores the fundamental principles of human love and sexuality in works by AndrT Breton, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dalf, Frida Kahlo, Paul Eluard, and others, accompanied by photography by Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Claude Cahun. (Poetry)

Surrealist Love Poems

"Scholar and editor Mary Ann Caws has chosen work by more than 100 poets. Her deliberately extensive, international selection includes work by Francophone poets, by writers better known for accomplishments in other genres (novelists, songwriters, performance artists), and by many more female poets than have typically been represented in past anthologies of modern French poetry. The editor has opted for a chronological organization that highlights six crucial "pressure points" in modern French poetry. Accompanying the selections are a general introduction, informative essays on each period, and short biographical notes - all prepared by the editor."--BOOK JACKET.

The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-century French Poetry

The emotional charge Surrealism extended to the objects of its encounter makes itself felt as at least philosophically erotic. This charged look determines the atmosphere around the Surrealist text and its encounters--in the world of art and the world it made into art. In this attempt to make sense of the way Surrealism sees, conceals, poses, and stares at its own self and the selves of others, the author examines the decors, games, portraits, transformations, and mirrorings that establish Surrealism's links to Baroque forms of representation.

An Erotics of Encounter

The Surrealist Look

This book looks at the lives of three Bloomsbury women--writer Virginia Woolf, Virginia's sister and talented painter Vanessa Bell, and an unsuccessful, reclusive artist Dora Carrington. It also gives an intimate look at friendship, artistic endeavor, and women's search for selfhood.

Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington

Women of Bloomsbury

Unica Zürn

João Ribas

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Susan Lewis

Matthew Moore

Will Alexander

Wayne Koestenbaum

Chris Campanioni

Tamas Panitz

Ghérasim Luca

Osvaldo Lamborghini

Léon-Paul Fargue

Ted Rees

Denise Newman

Evan Isoline

Sara Crangle

Joshua Bird

Billie Chernicoff

M. T. C. Cronin

Xeno Muir Pam Dick

Spencer Everett

Josh Fomon

Kirsten Ihns

Jack Jung

Jed Munson

Garrett Phelps

Genya Turovskaya

Utterance As a Fraught Passage: Aporia

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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

Featuring many rare images, an enlightening exploration of the life and work of avant-garde multihyphenate Mina Loy. Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a poet, painter, novelist, essayist, manifesto-writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance, and spectacular adventures in the worlds of Futurism, Christian Science, feminism, fashion, and everything modern and modernist. This new account by Mary Ann Caws explores Mina Loy’s exceptional life and features many rare images of Mina Loy and her husband, the Swiss writer, poet, artist, boxer, and provocateur Arthur Cravan—who disappeared without a trace in 1918.

Apology of Genius

Mina Loy

Mary Ann Caws

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