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- catalog abstract "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. Peter De Vries is not the Calvinist-in-spite-of-himself that he has sometimes been labeled. Writing in what Constance Rourke called "the extravagant vein in American humor," De Vries offers us what Thoreau called the "wild," Andre Breton the "marvelous." His mercurial writings accord not with any dogma, but with Kenneth Bruce's "conviction that mankind's only hope is a cult of comedy."".
- catalog contributor b8589771.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The Literary Life of Peter De Vries -- 3. Peter De Vries and 1930s Surrealism -- 4. A Reading of But Who Wakes the Bugler? -- 5. Surrealizations: The Unofficial Career of Peter De Vries -- 6. In "The Extravagant Vein in American Humor."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-229) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Peter De Vries is not the Calvinist-in-spite-of-himself that he has sometimes been labeled. Writing in what Constance Rourke called "the extravagant vein in American humor," De Vries offers us what Thoreau called the "wild," Andre Breton the "marvelous." His mercurial writings accord not with any dogma, but with Kenneth Bruce's "conviction that mankind's only hope is a cult of comedy."".
- catalog extent "240 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Peter De Vries and surrealism.".
- catalog identifier "0838753116 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Peter De Vries and surrealism.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Peter De Vries and surrealism.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "De Vries, Peter Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS3507.E8673 Z59 1995".
- catalog subject "Surrealism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The Literary Life of Peter De Vries -- 3. Peter De Vries and 1930s Surrealism -- 4. A Reading of But Who Wakes the Bugler? -- 5. Surrealizations: The Unofficial Career of Peter De Vries -- 6. In "The Extravagant Vein in American Humor."".
- catalog title "Peter De Vries and surrealism / Dan Campion.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".