Peter De Vries and SurrealismBucknell University Press, 1995 - 240 pagina's Peter De Vries and Surrealism rereads De Vries in the light of surrealism and argues that the novelist and poet devised a new comic form, surrealist farce. De Vries's style and narrative technique are often surrealistic, and he mentions surrealism and surrealists in all but two of his twenty-six books. Yet, in fifty years of commentary on De Vries, scarcely any notice has been taken of these surrealist elements. This study moves from literary biography and historiography, which establish De Vries's points of contact with surrealism, through textual analysis, which traces De Vries's working through modernism toward surrealism in his early writing, to a consideration of De Vries's mature works that takes into account their surrealist aspects and allusions. |
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... comic credo : Nobody has been funnier than Faulkner , nor has anyone a better grasp of the human predicament than Mark Twain . And didn't Yeats say Hamlet and Lear are gay ? Frost said of this basic principle of playfulness ( in ...
... comic credo : Nobody has been funnier than Faulkner , nor has anyone a better grasp of the human predicament than Mark Twain . And didn't Yeats say Hamlet and Lear are gay ? Frost said of this basic principle of playfulness ( in ...
Pagina 166
... comic incongruities . Juxtaposition is neces- sary but not sufficient to identify a body of work as surrealist.1 The " Surrealist ticket " belongs to the broader class of comic incongruities and could surely be discussed as such — but ...
... comic incongruities . Juxtaposition is neces- sary but not sufficient to identify a body of work as surrealist.1 The " Surrealist ticket " belongs to the broader class of comic incongruities and could surely be discussed as such — but ...
Pagina 180
... comic faith serve De Vries not only as aesthetic im- pulses but also as cognitive strategies and moral guides . Reading the books of Peter De Vries is an exercise in the " comic ' theory of education " that Kenneth Burke , in his ...
... comic faith serve De Vries not only as aesthetic im- pulses but also as cognitive strategies and moral guides . Reading the books of Peter De Vries is an exercise in the " comic ' theory of education " that Kenneth Burke , in his ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Literary Life of Peter De Vries | 26 |
Peter De Vries and 1930s Surrealism | 60 |
Copyright | |
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