A Metapoetics of the Passage Architextures in Surrealism and After

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].