CORRUPT CHILDHOOD. DOROTHEA TANNING’S CHASM: A WEEKEND Cover Image

CORRUPT CHILDHOOD. DOROTHEA TANNING’S CHASM: A WEEKEND
CORRUPT CHILDHOOD. DOROTHEA TANNING’S CHASM: A WEEKEND

Author(s): Gabriela Glăvan
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: avant-garde art;childhood;gothic imagination;the infantile;Surrealism

Summary/Abstract: A celebrated surrealist artist, Dorothea Tanning is also the author of a few literary publications that reveal the constant mirroring between painting and literature in her work. Her only novel, Chasm: A Weekend reflects many of the artist’s predilect themes and metaphors, among which childhood stands out as a recurrent artistic obsession. This paper investigates the metamorphoses and mutations of the infantile in Dorothea Tanning’s novel, focusing on the particularities of an unusual dialogue between plastic representation and literature.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 57-63
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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