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Self De(con)struct: Writing and the Surrealist Text (Capricornia, 4)

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Holding in its hands its head "as it spoke," surrealism wanted to write its self automatically, to have its language out of control, and had instead its own self-reflection. What that has left the critic to talk about, the academic and unacademic writer after surrealist nostalgia to write about, has been a reading of the surrealist project coloured with its own projection of what this out-of-control control might have been. Here inscribed under the heading of re-reading, re-writing, and self-deconstructing, a new projection appears, believing strongly - and communicating as strongly as that belief - that "only when language is felt to have lost its head, can the writing pick up where the speaking leaves off." This is that leaving off of speaking and that pick-me-up of writing.The Spanish upside down question mark beginning the interrogation which a right-side up question mark concludes perpetrates, quite wonderfully, the notion that there might be some perfectly doubtful centre: in this doubt Wills puts his re-investigation of surrealism, which is itself centred about one of the most doubting projects, that of Robert Desnos' texts, perhaps the most enthusiastically commented at present of any in the surrealist canon.The way in which Desnos' texts do and then undo Breton's passed-on project of a transcendental automatic dictation is the subject of the following pages. Wills works out not just Derridean deconstructive devices such as deferring and differancing, but relies also on Barthes and his perception, on Riffaterre and others of the newer stylistics, on Bataille, Klossowski, and Mr Sade himself, to speak up Desnos.[...] What Wills proves is how rich a field is Desnos in his many surrealist manifestations.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dept.of Modern Languages, James Cook University of North Queensland

Release: October 22, 2022

ISBN: 0864431414

ISBN 13: 9780864431417

Self De(con)struct: Writing and the Surrealist Text (Capricornia, 4)

0/5 ( ratings)

Holding in its hands its head "as it spoke," surrealism wanted to write its self automatically, to have its language out of control, and had instead its own self-reflection. What that has left the critic to talk about, the academic and unacademic writer after surrealist nostalgia to write about, has been a reading of the surrealist project coloured with its own projection of what this out-of-control control might have been. Here inscribed under the heading of re-reading, re-writing, and self-deconstructing, a new projection appears, believing strongly - and communicating as strongly as that belief - that "only when language is felt to have lost its head, can the writing pick up where the speaking leaves off." This is that leaving off of speaking and that pick-me-up of writing.The Spanish upside down question mark beginning the interrogation which a right-side up question mark concludes perpetrates, quite wonderfully, the notion that there might be some perfectly doubtful centre: in this doubt Wills puts his re-investigation of surrealism, which is itself centred about one of the most doubting projects, that of Robert Desnos' texts, perhaps the most enthusiastically commented at present of any in the surrealist canon.The way in which Desnos' texts do and then undo Breton's passed-on project of a transcendental automatic dictation is the subject of the following pages. Wills works out not just Derridean deconstructive devices such as deferring and differancing, but relies also on Barthes and his perception, on Riffaterre and others of the newer stylistics, on Bataille, Klossowski, and Mr Sade himself, to speak up Desnos.[...] What Wills proves is how rich a field is Desnos in his many surrealist manifestations.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dept.of Modern Languages, James Cook University of North Queensland

Release: October 22, 2022

ISBN: 0864431414

ISBN 13: 9780864431417

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