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

法国超现实主义运动最杰出的人物安德烈·布雷东（André Breton）写道，他渴望追求一位在该运动中处于中心地位的女性作为缪斯女神，“这样，自然生活在神话中的她就会被神话化”，正如法国评论家帕斯卡琳·穆里耶-卡西勒（Pascaline Mourier-Casile）在她对娜佳（Nadja）的评论中指出的那样（1994）。在经典的超现实主义作品中，女性与神话结合的自然方式在法语和英语学术界越来越受到质疑。一些评论家采用了女权主义的方法来讨论男性超现实主义作家的作品（Lusty，2007; Lomas，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年），但仍然有一个惊人的缺乏专题论文对妇女的超现实主义。我的博士论文将扩大这种女权主义奖学金，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，关注神话在她们的写作和视觉艺术中的使用。研究问题-女性超现实主义作家和艺术家使用神话意象的效果是什么：解构或重建她们的身份？- 他们对这种意象的使用在多大程度上与他们同时代的男性超现实主义者有关，又有何不同？- 这种神话意象是否应该让我们重新构建它们与超现实主义运动的联系？

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?