CORRUPT CHILDHOOD. DOROTHEA TANNING’S CHASM: A WEEKEND
CORRUPT CHILDHOOD. DOROTHEA TANNING’S CHASM: A WEEKEND
Author(s): Gabriela GlăvanSubject(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.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 57-63
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English