Paris et quatre textes narratifs du surrealisme: Aragon, Breton, Desnos, Soupault.
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Title
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Paris et quatre textes narratifs du surrealisme: Aragon, Breton, Desnos, Soupault.
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Identifier
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AAI9732930
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identifier
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9732930
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Creator
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Ishikawa, Kiyoko.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Mary Ann Caws
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance | History, European
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Abstract
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For surrealists who try to discover the marvelous in everyday life, the city of Paris itself is one of their places for adventure. Strolling on Parisian streets becomes a practice of their theory of automatic writing which respects primarily the power of "chance." Throughout the activities of surrealism in France, Paris is represented in films, paintings, photographs, also in literature. In this thesis, I study four surrealist prose narratives about strolling in Paris, all published between 1926 and 1928, the most productive years of surrealism, in order to see how the authors transform the real Paris into an unknown realm of inner exploration, and how they reject the old notion of novel, claiming a new sort of prose in which living and writing interact each other.;Breton's Nadja is a dialectical text of life and writing, and the city perceived through a series of strange experiences is a place of quest for the author's self. Aragon tries in Le Paysan de Paris to make a modern mythology from the old-fashioned sites and objects in the city; its montage-like text transcribes the narrator's aimless promenade on city streets. Paris in Desnos's La Liberte ou l'amour! is as much deformed as his text playing with words to excess; its dreamlike city reflects the author's phantasm and despair. By writing Les Dernieres nuits de Paris, Soupault, already an ex-surrealist, expresses his love for Paris, but at the same time, he attempts to break with his attachment to this capital.;Relying on the strangeness and mystery of the city, all of these texts tend to delve into the unconscious and irrational part of human beings. Paris in these texts is different from the mythical Paris formed by the nineteenth century literature; it is also different from the Paris of festive atmosphere in the 1920s. Despite the common attitude of writing Paris, the four texts differ strongly from each other in their manner of writing, but they all claim a limitless freedom for the human spirit.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
