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Mary Ann Caws
A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws's long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism.
Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary…
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Mary Ann Caws, Michel Delville
The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long-underappreciated-and now quickly burgeoning-poetic tradition.
The first English-language collection of…
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Theory meets practice as twenty-four distinguished scholars apply a variety of methodologies to many different literatures, including American, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American, and Spanish. The texts…
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A revision of the author’s 1974 treatise on Breton, this text adopts a new approach, considering different essays and concentrating on new aspects of his works. Caws devotes a whole…
A comprehensive survey of the 20th-century’s longest lasting art movement.
In this new biography of Salvador Dali, highly respected art and literary historian Mary Ann Caws explores the life and work of one of the most fascinating and colourful figures…
A memoir of Mary Ann Caws which recounts a life of passionate engagement. It sketches her early years in North Carolina, where she makes her debut and begins to struggle…
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Mary Ann Caws presents in detail an important feature of modern literary narrative–the setting apart of passages that stand out from the flow of the prose, larger-than-life scenes that seem…
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This new biography, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal’s life and work that are seldom found side by side: his religious motivations and…
Creative Gatherings surveys meeting locations across Europe and the United States, from cityscapes to island hideouts, from private homes to public cafes and artists' colonies.
A biography of the flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde Mina Loy.
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Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington.
A text of surrealism. It includes an essay on Eluard’s works.
The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers and poets ate, cooked, depicted and wrote about food.
For Mary Ann Caws - noted translator of surrealist poetry - the most appealing translations are also the oddest; This text is a celebration of the fruitful peculiarity that results…
A comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary…
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An anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963). It includes a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay setting the context for the poem.
An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind’s deepest powers
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First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
How do we look at looking? The essays in this volume, coming as they do from highly varied viewpoints and representing the perspectives of thinkers and critics in three different…
Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book examines Motherwell’s way of thinking and writing in relation to his paintings.
Joyce Mansour
Mansour's late poems chart constellations of desire, femininity, and dream. Considered by Andre Breton to be the preeminent Surrealist of the post-war period, Mansour brings this masculine movement into a…
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Rene Char est l'auteur d'une oeuvre poetique colossale, moins par sa quantite que par sa nature. Composee minutieusement au fil des decennies du XXe siecle, elle se pose desormais comme…
The essays in this volume, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which Virginia Woolf has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different…
The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European ‘fortunes’. This work features essays, prepared by scholars, critics and translators, that record…
This international anthology takes us to the seldom discussed and anthologized beginnings of the prose poem. It gathers the foundational writings of William Blake, Charles Baudelaire and Max Jacob alongside…
Luca Gherasim
One of the final texts by the Romanian poet Luca (1913-1994) is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation of play with considerable exactitude and…
The first collection of writings by the seminal modernist introduces readers to Sackville-West’s important contribution to modern literature, including poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts…
The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem is the first comprehensive guide to the prose poem written from an international and comparative perspective.
Andre Breton
Offers an adulation of love as both mystery and revelation. This book is dedicated to defying the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust.
Mary Ann Caws,Hermine Riffaterre
Carol M Pauley
Alice Paalen Rahon,Mary Ann Caws
Includes original poems in French and English translations.
Mary Ann Caws,Vita Sackville-West
This volume collects a wide variety of Vita Sackville-West’s works, over half of which, including her travel notebooks, her diaries, some short stories, and her intimate dream notebook, have never…
Mary Ann Caws,Saint-John Perse
This is a bilingual - French-English - edition of selected poetry.
A collection of critical and polemical essays. It features such essays as: Refusal to Inter , Legitimate Defense , Surrealism and the Treatment of Mental Illness , Introduction to the…
A collection of critical and polemical essays.
Paule Thevenin,Jacques Derrida
Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud’s late visual work, all reproduced in color.
Rene Char
This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists… The translations, by several hands, serve Char well-full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal…
Pierre Reverdy
Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) is considered by many to be one of France’s most influential poets of the early twentieth century. His two dozen published poetry books went on to influence…
Steven Cahn,Victor Cahn
A step-by-step guide to successful writing.
Fondazione Echaurren Salaris,Mary Ann Caws
In this conversation about Marcel Duchamp, held in 2018 at the City University of New York, Mary Ann Caws takes her cue from the impressions she received a year earlier…
These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement…
Lorand Gaspar
Born in 1925 in Transylvania into a Hungarian family, Lorand Gaspar grew up speaking Hungarian, Romanian, German, and also French, which would become the language in which he wrote. Endowed…
