CEEL 0917 - Introduction to Surrealism

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Brown University

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Can you write a poem or piece of prose without carefully choosing your words, without ordering them in a coherent fashion? Would you consider the flea market to be a site of inspiration and discovery? Do you believe that literature and art can be truly revolutionary? In Paris in the 1920s a group of avant-garde writers and artists answered a resounding “yes!” to these questions. By doing so, they broke with the aesthetic values and societal norms of their time. They called themselves the Surrealists, and they believed that creation and expression should not be controlled by commonly-held moral beliefs nor limited by the constraints of logic, reason, and “reality.”

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www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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