British Surrealist Poetry in the 1930s

1995 ◽  
pp. 169-192
Author(s):  
Steven Connor
Keyword(s):  
Surrealist Poetry

Herbert Read's surrealist poetry

1964 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-6) ◽  
pp. 265-270
Author(s):  
H. W. Häusermann
Keyword(s):  
Surrealist Poetry

J. H. Matthews, Surrealist Poetry in France

1972 ◽  
Vol XXVI (1) ◽  
pp. 92-93
Author(s):  
S. I. Lockerbie
Keyword(s):  
Surrealist Poetry

Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 664-666
Author(s):  
Robert Belton
Keyword(s):  
Surrealist Poetry

Evaluating translations of surrealist poetry

Target ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham. D. Low
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Response Data ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Surrealist Poetry ◽  
Comparative Note

Evaluating translations of poetry will always be difficult. The paper focuses on the problems posed by French surrealist poetry, where the reader was held to be as important as the writer in creating interpretations, and argues that evaluations involving these poems inevitably require reader-response data. The paper explores empirically, in the context of André Breton’s “L’Union libre”, whether a modification of Think-Aloud procedure, called Note-Down, applied both to the original text and to three English translations, can contribute useful information to a traditional close reading approach. The results suggest that comparative Note-Down protocols permit simple cost-benefit analyses and allow one to track phenomena, like the persistence of an effect through the text, which might be hard to obtain by other methods.

scholarly journals Atmosphere of societal anxiety and representations of the body: The image of man in surrealist works of Vítězslav Nezval in the 20th century interwar period in Bohemia

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Brzezińska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Flat Surface ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
The Body ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Clear Tendency ◽  
Surrealist Poetry

Aim: The interwar period in Czechoslovakia was a time of societal anxiety. The aim of this paper is to find the central themes of societal fear, as reflected in the surrealist works of Vítězslav Nezval, a czech poet. The analysis will be based primarily on the lyric poetry from the collections: Žena v množném čísle [Woman in Plural] (1936) and Absolutní hrobař [Absolute Gravedigger] (1937). Methods: The analysis is based on the Josef Vojdovík’s anthropo-phenomenological method of exploring the surrealist perceptions of the body, which is based on vertical and horizontal anthropological dimensions and phenomenological conceptions of fears. Results: Surrealist poetry and other literary works contain images of the body that are changed by fear: deformations, metamorphoses, fragmentarisations, hybridisations, expressing the body as a collage, a mosaic, an amalgam, a phantom, a grotesque, an inlay, and as lifelessness. It undergoes multiple metamorphoses, not only within its own form, but also with regard to the categories of life and lifelessness. Conclusions: The analysis leads to the conclusion, that V. Nezval’s works show a clear tendency to portray the body as an object which undergoes a metamorphosis. The body is balanced on the edge between living and dead, organic and inorganic, it is determined by time and space. It is often shown along the narrowing-widening relation, in stupor, petrification, reduced to a flat surface or miniaturised.

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