Search for dissertations about: "André Breton"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words André Breton.

2. 1. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

   Author : Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE

4. 2. "A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic" : Angela Carter and Surrealism

   Author : Anna Watz; Sara Danius; Stephen Donovan; Sarah Gamble; Lusty Natalya; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Angela Carter; surrealism; Xavière Gauthier; André Breton; feminism; avant-garde; psychoanalysis; eroticism; representations of women;

   Abstract : This study examines the intersection of surrealism and feminism in the writing of Angela Carter. Tracing the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by surrealist aesthetics and politics, it reveals the way in which her growing discontent with the movement’s gender politics gave critical content to her own feminist poetics. READ MORE