The Body Divine: Constructing Female Identity Through Mythological Imagery and Intersemiotism in Surrealism

法国超现实主义运动最著名的人物安德烈·布列顿写道，他渴望将一位对超现实主义运动至关重要的女性作为缪斯女神来追求，正如法国评论家帕斯卡琳·穆里耶-卡西勒在对《纳贾》(1994)的评论中所指出的那样，这样，自然生活在神话中的她就会被神话化。女性在经典超现实主义作品中与神话保持一致的自然方式，在法语和英语学术中都日益成为问题。一些评论家采用女权主义的方法来讨论男性超现实主义作家的作品(卢斯蒂，2007；洛马斯，2011)，一些选集有助于使女性超现实主义作家的作品为人所知(Caws等人，1991)，但仍然缺乏关于女性超现实主义的专著。我的博士论文将不仅通过研究与超现实主义相关的女性作品，而且通过持续分析她们的符号间实践，专注于神话在她们的写作和视觉艺术中的使用，从而扩大这一女权主义学术研究的范围。研究问题--女性超现实主义作家和艺术家使用神话意象：解构或重建她们的身份？--她们对这种意象的使用在多大程度上与她们的男性超现实主义同代人有关，又在多大程度上不同？这种神话意象应该让我们重新构建她们与超现实主义运动的联系吗？

André Breton, the most prominent figure of the Surrealist movement in France, wrote about his desire to pursue a woman central to the movement as a muse "so that she, who naturally lived within a myth, would be mythologised," as French critic Pascaline Mourier-Casile points out in her commentary on Nadja (1994). The natural way in which women aligned with mythology in canonical surrealist works is increasingly problematised in both Francophone and Anglophone scholarship. Several critics have adopted a feminist approach to discuss the work produced by male surrealist writers (Lusty, 2007; Lomas, 2011) and a few anthologies have helped to make the work of female surrealist writers known (Caws et al., 1991), but there remains a striking lack of monographs on women's surrealism. My PhD thesis will expand this feminist scholarship, not only by studying the works of women associated with surrealism, but also by focusing on the use of mythology in their writing as well as in their visual art through sustained analysis of their intersemiotic practices.Research Questions- To what effect do female surrealist writers and artists use mythological imagery: to deconstruct or reconstruct their identity? - To what extent is their use of this imagery related to, and different from, their male surrealist contemporaries? - Should this mythological imagery bring us to reframe their association with the surrealist movement?