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Pulp surrealism : insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris / Robin Walz

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000

Online-Ressource (xii, 206 p) : ill ; 24 cm

Englisch

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Surrealism and Popular Culture; 1. The Baedeker of Hives; 2. The Lament of Fant'mas; 3. Murder, Mirth, and Misogyny; 4. Is Suicide a Solution?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-206) and index

Print version: Pulp Surrealism : Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-century Paris

0-520-21619-9

978-0-520-21619-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

DC715

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LOC-SH: Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century ; French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism ; Surrealism (Literature) ; Popular culture -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century ; Social change

French literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism ; Paris (France) ; Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Popular culture ; France ; Paris ; History ; 20th century ; Social change ; Surrealism (Literature) ; Electronic books

In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism