Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, translator, art historian and literary critic.She is Distinguished Professor Emerita in Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and on the film faculty. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, and edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on André Breton, Robert Desnos, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jabès. She served as the senior editor for the ''HarperCollins World Reader'', and edited anthologies including ''Manifesto: A Century of Isms'', ''Surrealism'', and the ''Yale Anthology of 20th-Century French Poetry''. Among others, she has translated Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, and René Char.
Among the positions she has held are President, Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism, 1971–75 and President, Modern Language Association of America, 1983, Academy of Literary Studies, 1984–85, and the American Comparative Literature Association, 1989-91.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
In October 2004, she published her autobiography, ''To the Boathouse: a Memoir'' (University Alabama Press), and in November 2008, a cookbook memoir: ''Provençal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France'' (Pegasus Books).
She was married to Peter Caws and is the mother of Hilary Caws-Elwitt and of Matthew Caws, lead singer of the band Nada Surf. She is married to Dr. Boyce Bennett; they live in New York City. Provided by Wikipedia
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Mina Loy : apology of genius / by Caws, Mary Ann
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The inner theatre of recent French poetry: Cendrars, Tzara, Péret, Artaud, Bonnefoy. by Caws, Mary Ann
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About French poetry from Dada to "Tel quel"; text and theory. by Caws, Mary Ann
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The presence of René Char / by Caws, Mary Ann
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The eye in the text : essays on perception, mannerist to modern / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Yves Bonnefoy / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Women of Bloomsbury : Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Robert Motherwell : what art holds / by Caws, Mary Ann
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André Breton / by Caws, Mary Ann
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André Breton. by Caws, Mary Ann
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Virginia Woolf / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Marcel Proust / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Surprised in translation / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Surrealism and the literary imagination; a study of Breton and Bachelard. by Caws, Mary Ann
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Surrealism and the Literary Imagination : a Study of Breton and Bachelard. by Caws, Mary Ann
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To the boathouse : a memoir / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Bloomsbury and France : art and friends / by Caws, Mary Ann
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Undoing art / by Caws, Mary Ann
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The surrealist voice of Robert Desnos / by Caws, Mary Ann, 1933-
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