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Breton talks about the importance of using our imagination and specifically our unconscious imagination from our dreams. The word “surrealism” comes from the French word “sur” meaning on top of added to “realism” and that’s exactly what Breton is talking about in his essay “Manifesto of Surrealism.” He says there’s a need for a “future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one

Baudelaire wrote during a time of revolution that was not just about literature. It was during a period of societal revolution that therefore influenced a political revolution. These things combined led to themes in literature changing drastically. This era was post-enlightenment, which meant that people were less focused on intellectual improvement and discoveries, and ended up being focused more on the emotional sides of life. On top of this, Baudelaire was a part of creati

The article discusses intersectionality as a whole by surveying various scholars who have critiqued it, analyzing its impact, and considering who it takes into account. Nash says we must “engage with its [intersectionality’s] contradictions, absences, and murkiness” as if to say that acknowledging intersectionality in and of itself creates more “murkiness” than the issue at hand (195). The overarching point that Nash seems to be attempting to make is to “expose the assumption