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She disappeared into unhappy consciousness: Louise Bourgeois and the bathos of surrealism

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:30 authored by Doug HaynesDoug Haynes
This essay uses Hegel's notion of the unhappy consciousness to read Bourgeois as she punctures the masculine "sublimity" of her Surrealist masters. As Professor Charles Altieri of the University of Berkeley has noted of the essay in a review for the European Journal of English Studies: "Doug Haynes masterful link of Bourgeois to Hegels unhappy consciousness is especially forceful in convicting classical Surrealism of restoring a rhetoric of the sublime in different form. Then he makes a compelling case for the contrast involved in Bourgeois feel for the particulars of bodily states and relations lurking in resistance to all celebrations of mastery."

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Publisher

Continuum

Page range

90-111

Pages

208.0

Book title

On bathos

ISBN

9781441105073

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  • English Publications

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  • No

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  • Yes

Editors

Peter Nicholls, Sara Crangle

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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