Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde P... - 9781472456595

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Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde ProseAuthor(s): Vivienne Brough-Evans\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472456595, 978-1472456595\nSynopsis\nVivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the Collge de Sociologie [tel] as a critical tool in shedding new light on the literary oeuvre of non-French writers who worked both within and against a surrealist framework. \n\nThe minor surrealist genre of prose literature is considered herein, rather than surrealism's mainstay, poetry, with the intention of fracturing preconceptions regarding the medium of surrealist expression. The aim is to explore whether International surrealism can begin to be more fully explained by an occluded strain of 'dissident' surrealist thought that searche.