Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Manchester
Book title
Simulating the Marvellous: Psychology - surrealism - postmodernism
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Manchester University Press
ISBN of book
9780719088827
Year of publication
2012
URL
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Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
David Lomas is the main author, responsible for 80 percent (110,000 words) of the writing for the book, and it represents a decade of his research. Merging both authors’ texts into a coherent whole, and seeing the book into print, also fell to Lomas alone. Simulating the Marvellous utilises simulation and the related concept of the simulacrum as the basis for a comprehensive new reading of Surrealist art and literature. It is a cultural and intellectual history incorporating a detailed exploration of simulation and cognate terms (contagion, hysteria, mimicry, suggestion) in fin-de-siиcle medical and the wider culture.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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