Description
About the Author
Margaret Cohen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.
Reviews
""This challenging, often profound book investigates the 'visual rhetoric of understanding' manifest in surrealism's and Marxism's 'emancipatory vocabularies' and dream imagery. Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's and Andre Breton's theoretical, critical, and literary writings, Cohen posits a genre of 'Gothic Marxism, ' which owes much to Freud's psychoanalytic oeuvre. This genre links dialectical thinking, dreaming, and historical awakening with political, cultural, and artistic bricolage. . . . [In addition,] the book contains evocative illustrations." * CHOICE *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520201507
Author Margaret Cohen
Format Paperback
Page Count 271
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 499g