Abstract

ARIZA ALFONSO, María del Mar. The Redefinition of the Subject as a Project of Bretonnian Surrealist Poetry. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.1, pp.237-264.  Epub Apr 06, 2021. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v23vn1.90600.

The surrealistic project of redefining the self conceives poetry as a resource to liberate individuals from the moral and rational limits that constrain self-expression. Tis paper reflects on André Breton's surrealistic program and contends that even if he insistently pleads in favor of revaluating subjective experience, his final purpose transcends this initial goal and calls for a drastic social transformation. In this light, the paper studies the author's poetic explorations tending to liberate the self. Four topics structure this analysis: irrationality as a person's legitimate expression; the surrealistic adoption of an aesthetic of the emotion; its subsequent concretization through the mechanism of sublimation; and the convergence of all these in a poetic that opposes impositions that restrict the activity of the self.

Keywords : André Breton; aesthetics of the emotion; irrationality; poetics of opposition; surrealistic poetry; sublimation.

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