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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Pagina 138
... laughter . De Vries's laughter is not that of social correction but of astonish- ment . It does not subtract from human possibilities but augments them . It does not seek to limit diversity but celebrates it . The surreal- ist farce ...
... laughter . De Vries's laughter is not that of social correction but of astonish- ment . It does not subtract from human possibilities but augments them . It does not seek to limit diversity but celebrates it . The surreal- ist farce ...
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... laughter . One either finds the picture funny or shocking . Either reaction is a recognition of what we instinctively know that Jesus does not laugh . . . . A biblical laugh is usually one of ... contempt or indignation , rather than ...
... laughter . One either finds the picture funny or shocking . Either reaction is a recognition of what we instinctively know that Jesus does not laugh . . . . A biblical laugh is usually one of ... contempt or indignation , rather than ...
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... laughter , " Richard Boston in his Anatomy of Laughter affirms . " Laughter defies the pain of human existence and relieves it . . . . A twentieth - century writer who has notably put for- ward the claims of laughter in fair weather and ...
... laughter , " Richard Boston in his Anatomy of Laughter affirms . " Laughter defies the pain of human existence and relieves it . . . . A twentieth - century writer who has notably put for- ward the claims of laughter in fair weather and ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Literary Life of Peter De Vries | 26 |
Peter De Vries and 1930s Surrealism | 60 |
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