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Author:   Anna Watz (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9781316514153

ISBN 10:   1316514153
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 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.

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Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the author of Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic' (2016), editor of Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration (2020), reviews editor of the International Journal of Surrealism, and program chair of The International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS).

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