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Visionary Fictions : Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age /
"Visionary" writers, says Edward Ahearn in this original book, seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the "real," using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations in their work. Their fiction ex...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. An Anatomy of the Visionary: Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Chapter 2. The Visionary and the Millennial: Navalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Chapter 3. Visionary Insanity: Nerval's Aurelia
- Chapter 4. Antivisionary Subversions: Lautreamont's Chants de Maldoror
- Chapter 5. Surrealism and Its Discontents: Breton's Nadja and Aragon's Paysan de Paris
- Chapter 6. The Sordid Sublime: Burroughs's Naked Lunch.
- Chapter 7. Visionary Women: Wittig's Guerilleres and Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index