'Outsiders and Impersonators': a critical and creative exploration of the surrealist fiction of Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun and Unica Zurn

《局外人与模仿者》：对利奥诺拉·卡林顿、伊塞尔·科尔库恩和尤尼卡·祖恩的超现实主义小说进行批判性和创造性的探索

• 批准号: 2261679
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Salford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2261679
• 关键词: Outsiders; Impersonators; critical; creative; exploration

This research comprises two interrelated elements: a critical thesis exploring the distinctive ways inwhich the above writers' work, situated as an 'outsider' version of Surrealismi, offers new insights regardingits canon and philosophy; and an experimental novel which will extend these insights via practice-based investigation.The fiction will provide opportunities to conduct formal experiments suggested by the critical enquiry andgenerate insights which would remain speculative without this praxical testing ground.The outcomes will be an original contribution to research in the field of Surrealism and an experimentalfiction functioning as artefact and reflexive evidence; emerging out of the synthesis of critical readingand writing.Cultural Context:Women were marginalised at the inception of Surrealism but participated in its early experiments. Their'assigned' role as conductors of 'mental electricity'ii or as 'muses' is well documented. Yet there is onlyone female signature on either of the two Surrealist Manifestos of the 1920's.iii'Outsider', denoting that 'internationally recognised category of self-taught art'iv, seems useful as a termto account for elements of this project. Though the work of the three women is frequently described assurrealist, it often doesn't fit comfortably with notions of creativity set out in surrealism's manifestos.The proposed critical investigation will interrogate conventional understandings of Surrealism, and willquestion whether these women writers are best understood as surrealists, or whether they call for a destabilisingof critical conventions, hence a re-framing of how they are situated in the canon.Research Context:Criticism of the fiction of surrealist women is relatively limited. Katherine Conley's work (2008) representsthe most significant and concerted focus, analysing surrealist women's writing in relation to parallelmale equivalences (often by Breton and Soupault), and tending towards a re-visioning of the conceptof selfhood for women. Much discussion elsewhere stages a critique of the implicit misogyny of the SurrealistProjectv. Whilst this is essential work, so far there is scant consideration of the ways these femaleartists on their own merit offer new insights into the creative process and represent genuinely fresh material,outside the literary and artistic taxonomy. Methodology:The novel will be shaped by the discoveries made during analysis of the fiction and will, reflexively, distila set of technical ideas which did not previously exist in relation to Surrealism.In my critical analysis of the selected texts, the following strategies will be traced:- Fiction as an autobiographical refraction- Literal masking of character within text- Journeys in disguise- Anti-anthropomorphic manifestations- Mythic re-figurings- Impersonation of genre archetypes- Impersonation of the surrealist project itself

这项研究包括两个相互关联的要素：一篇批评论文，探讨上述作家作品的独特方式，作为超现实主义的“局外人”版本，提供了关于其经典和哲学的新见解；以及一部实验小说，它将通过基于实践的调查来扩展这些见解。小说将提供机会进行批判性探究所建议的正式实验，并产生在没有实践检验场的情况下仍然是推测性的见解。其结果将是对超现实主义领域研究的原创贡献，以及作为人工制品和反身证据的实验小说；文化背景：女性在超现实主义诞生之初就被边缘化，但参与了其早期实验。他们作为“精神电”的导体或“缪斯”的“指定”角色是有据可查的。然而，在 1920 年代的两份超现实主义宣言中，只有一个女性签名。iii“局外人”，表示“国际公认的自学艺术类别”iv，作为解释该项目要素的术语似乎很有用。尽管这三位女性的作品经常被描述为超现实主义，但它们往往与超现实主义宣言中提出的创造力概念不太相符。拟议的批判性调查将质疑对超现实主义的传统理解，并将质疑这些女性作家是否最好被理解为超现实主义者，或者她们是否呼吁破坏批判传统的稳定，从而重新构建她们在经典中的地位。研究背景：批评 超现实主义女性小说的数量相对有限。凯瑟琳·康利（Katherine Conley）的作品（2008）代表了最重要和一致的焦点，分析了超现实主义女性写作与平行男性对等物（通常由布雷顿和苏波）的关系，并倾向于重新审视女性的自我概念。其他地方的许多讨论都对超现实主义计划中隐含的厌女症进行了批评。虽然这是一项重要的工作，但到目前为止，很少有人考虑到这些女性艺术家如何凭借自己的优点为创作过程提供新的见解，并在文学和艺术分类之外代表真正新鲜的材料。方法论：这部小说将由对小说分析过程中的发现所塑造，并将反射性地提炼出一系列以前不存在的与超现实主义相关的技术思想。在我对所选文本的批判性分析中，将追踪以下策略：-小说作为自传折射-文本中人物的字面掩饰-伪装的旅程-反拟人化表现-神话 重新塑造-模仿流派原型-模仿超现实主义项目本身