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Mary Ann Caws
Faculty Profile
Ph.D., University of Kansas.
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School. Comparative Literature, English, French, Film Studies
Selection of Books Published:
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Surrealism and the Literary Imagination. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
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The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
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The Inner Theatre of Recent French Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.
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André Breton. Boston: Twayne, 1974.
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The Presence of René Char. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
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René Char. Boston: Twayne, 1976.
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The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.
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La Main de Pierre Reverdy. Geneva: Droz, 1979.
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The Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
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A Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures Surrealist and After. Hanover: University of New England Press, 1981.
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L'Oeuvre filante de René Char. Paris: Nizet, 1981.
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Yves Bonnefoy. Boston: Twayne, 1984.
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Reading Frames in Modern Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
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Edmond Jabès. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988.
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The Art of Interference: Stressed Readings in Visual and Verbal Texts. Cambridge: Polity, and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
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Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.
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Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
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Carrington and Lytton/ Alone Together. London: Cecil Woolf, 1996.
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André Breton, Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1996.
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The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1997.
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Surrealism and the Art of Display. Wexner Center, Fall, 1997.
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Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. (with Sarah Bird Wright) New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Picasso's Weeping Woman: the Life and Art of Dora Maar (Boston:Little Brown/Bulfinch, 2000)
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Dora Maar With and Without Picasso: A Biography (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000)
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Les Vies de Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surrealistes (Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2000)
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Dora Maar con y sin Picasso: una biografia (Madrid: Destino, 2000)
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Die Kunsterlin an Picasso's Seite (Berlin: Nicolai, 2000)
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Dora Maar: med og uden Picasso : en biografi (Copenhagen: Forlaget Soren Fogtdal, 2001)
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Virginia Woolf: Illustrated Lives (London: Penguin, 2001)
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Marcel Proust: Illustrated Lives (Overlook, 2003)
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Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush (Reaktion Books, 2003)
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To the Boathouse: A Memoir (Univeristy of Alabama Press, 2004)
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Picasso (Critical Lives series) (Reaktion Books, 2005)
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Surrealism (London: Phaidon, 2005) (Themes and Movements series)
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Surprised in Translation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
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Glorious Eccentrics: Seven Modernist Women Painting, Writing, Resisting (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
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Henry James: Illustrated Lives (Overlook Duckworth, 2006)
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Salvador Dali: Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, 2008)
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Provencal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France (Pegasus Books, 2008)
Editions:
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Théorie/Tableau/Texte. Paris: Minard, 1983.
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About French Poetry from Dada to Tel Quel: Theory and Text. Detroit: Wayne State, 1984.
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The Prose Poem in France (co-editor with Hermine Riffaterre). New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
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Le Manifeste et le caché. Paris: Minard, 1981.
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Le Texte et son double. Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1985.
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Writing in a Modern Temper. Stanford: Anma Libri, 1984.
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Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986.
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Perspectives on Perception: Philosophy, Art, and Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1988.
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Edmond Jabès. (co-editor with Richard Stamelman) Geneva: Editions de la Montagne, 1989.
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Reading Proust Now. (co-editor with Eugène Nicole) New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
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Selected Poems of René Char. (co-editor with Tina Jolas and translated) New York: New Directions, 1992.
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Women and Surrealism. (co-editor with Ruedi Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg) Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1991.
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City Images. Philadelphia, Gordon and Breach, 1991.
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L'Esprit Créateur. (co-editor with Richard Stamelman) 32, 2 (Summer 1992).
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Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Journals, Letters, and Files. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
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HarperCollins World Reader. (chief editor) New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
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Contre-Courants: Les femmes s'écrivent à travers les siècles. (co-edited with Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Houlding, and Cheryl Morgan) Prentice Hall, 1994.
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Carto-graphies. (co-editor with Mary Jean Green, Marianne Hirsch, Ronnie Scharfman) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
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"Around Yves Bonnefoy" (co-editor with Renée Waldinger) Special issue of L'Esprit Créateur, 36, 3 (Fall 1996).
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Surrealist Painters and Poets (Cambridge: MIT, 2001)
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Manifesto: A Century of Isms (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2001)
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The Yale Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry: a Bilingual Anthology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002) (aided by French Government)
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Inventing the Real: Henry James and Edith Wharton (Feminist Press, 2008)
Translations:
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Tristan Tzara, Approximate Man and Other Writings, 1974.
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Poems of René Char. (with Jonathan Griffin) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
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Roof Slates and other Poems of Pierre Reverdy. (with Patricia Terry) Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1981.
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Selected Poems and Prose of Stephane Mallarmé. New York: New Directions, 1982.
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Poems of André Breton. (with Jean-Pierre Cauvin) Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Selected Poems of St-John Perse. New York: New Directions, 1982.
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André Breton, Mad Love. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
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Andre Breton, Communicating Vessels. (with Geoffrey Harris) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
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Marcelin Pleynet, Robert Motherwell. Paris: Daniel Papierski, 1990.
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Selected Poems of Pierre Reverdy. (editor and co-translator with John Ashbery and Patricia Terry) Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1991.
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Selected Poems of René Char. (editor and co-translator with Tina Jolas) New York: New Directions, 1991.
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Jacques Derrida and Paule Thévenin, The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1998.
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André Breton, Lost Steps. (co-editor with Mark Polizzotti) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
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André Breton, Break of Day. (co-translator and co-editor with Mark Polizzotti) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
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Mallarme in Prose (New York: New Directions, 2001)
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Louis-René des Forêts, (Ostinato, 2002).
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Surrealism, London and New York: Phaidon (Themes and Movements Series), 2004.
Ed. and tr. Tristan Tzara: L'Homme approximatif and other texts. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2004.
Ed and tr. with Jean-Pierre Cauvin: Poems of André Breton. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2005.
Ed. and tr. With Patricia Terry and Nancy Piore: Paul Eluard, Capital of Pain. Boston: Black Widow Books,2006.
Ed. and tr. The Essential Desnos. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2007.
Ed. and translated: René Char: Furor and Mystery and Other Texts, ed. with Nancy Piore.. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2008.
Elected Positions:
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President, Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism, 1971-75
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President, Modern Language Association of America, 1983
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President, Academy of Literary Studies, 1984-5
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President, American Comparative Literature Association, 1989-91
Fellowships:
Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow; National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow; Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars (2); Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar; life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Getty Scholar; Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio).
Editorships:
Editor: Le Siècle éclaté (Paris: 1973--); Co-Editor, Dada and Surrealism (1980--); Chief Editor, HarperCollins World Reader (1994).
Editorial Board: College Literature; Comparative Literature Studies; Comparative Studies; Diacritics; French Review (1970-80); Modern Fiction Studies; New York Literary Forum; Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA,1979-81); Sites; Twentieth Century Studies.
Advisor: Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern Poetry; Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Reader.
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