Recent Spanish Poetry and the Role of the Reader

Recent Spanish Poetry and the Role of the Reader PDF Author: Margaret Helen Persin
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Category : Reader-response criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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All the poets considered in this volume -- Jose Angel Valente, Francisco Brines, Claudio Rodriguez, Angel Gonzalez, and Gloria Fuertes -- view their work as a starting point in a creative process in which the reader plays a central role. Their emphasis on the mutability of meaning leads to the consideration of broader linguistic, existential, and philosophical questions.

Recent Spanish Poetry and the Role of the Reader

Recent Spanish Poetry and the Role of the Reader PDF Author: Margaret Helen Persin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reader-response criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
All the poets considered in this volume -- Jose Angel Valente, Francisco Brines, Claudio Rodriguez, Angel Gonzalez, and Gloria Fuertes -- view their work as a starting point in a creative process in which the reader plays a central role. Their emphasis on the mutability of meaning leads to the consideration of broader linguistic, existential, and philosophical questions.

Recent Spanish Poetry and the Role of the Reader

Recent Spanish Poetry and the Role of the Reader PDF Author: Margaret Helen Persin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
All the poets considered in this volume -- Jose Angel Valente, Francisco Brines, Claudio Rodriguez, Angel Gonzalez, and Gloria Fuertes -- view their work as a starting point in a creative process in which the reader plays a central role. Their emphasis on the mutability of meaning leads to the consideration of broader linguistic, existential, and philosophical questions.

Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century

Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century PDF Author: Andrew Debicki
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists. Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product. By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism. This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers inter-ested in comparative literature.

The Poetics of Self-consciousness

The Poetics of Self-consciousness PDF Author: Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838752562
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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"Twentieth-century poetry engages in a highly self-conscious meditation on the nature of poetic language. Spanish poetry, however, has sometimes been considered an exception to this tendency. This book, with its focus on linguistic self-reflexivity, refutes the notion that major Spanish poets such as Jorge Guillen and Vicente Aleixandre are theoretically naive creators. In a series of nuanced readings, Jonathan Mayhew demonstrates the extent to which modern Spanish poets are conscious of their linguistic medium." "Previous books on Spanish poetry published in English have been more limited in scope, usually including poets of a single "generation." The Poetics of Self-Consciousness is the first to study well-known writers of the earlier part of the century along with more recent poets such as Jose Angel Valente, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Jose Maria Alvarez, and Juan Lamillar. Interpreting poetic texts written from the 1920s through the 1980s, Mayhew is able to trace the evolving function of literary self-consciousness in Spanish poetry while remaining attentive to the differences among writers of the same historical moment. The modernist poets of the earlier part of the century are preoccupied by the problem of literary mimesis: the representation of reality through language. In the postwar years, poets turned their attention to the social and ethical dimensions of poetic language. The postmodernists of more recent decades, finally, are increasingly concerned with their own belatedness with respect to cultural traditions of the past." "Critics hailed Jonathan Mayhew's first book, Claudio Rodriguez and the Language of Poetic vision, as an "enlightening and timely book on perhaps Spain's greatest living poet," and "a signal first effort from a critic with high scholarly standards and a penetrating insight into contemporary poetry." With The Poetics of Self-Consciousness: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry, readers will discover another probing study of other modern and postmodern Spanish poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Introduction to Spanish Poetry

Introduction to Spanish Poetry PDF Author: Eugenio Florit
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120015
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 172

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From the 12th-century Cantar de Mío Cid to the 20th-century poetry of Garcia Lorca, Salinas and Alberti, this book contains 37 poems by Spain's greatest poets. Spanish texts with literal English translations; biographical, critical commentary.

Contemporary Spanish Poetry

Contemporary Spanish Poetry PDF Author: Cecile West-Settle
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Book Description
Debicki's illuminating application of varied critical methodologies and theoretical approaches, in books such as Poetry of Discovery and Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century, is reflected in all the essays included in this book."

The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry PDF Author: D. Gareth Walters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794640
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry comprises an extended survey of poetry written in Spanish from the Middle Ages to the present day, including both Iberian and Latin American writing. This volume offers a non-chronological approach to the subject in order to highlight the continuity and persistence of genres and forms (epic, ballad, sonnet) and of themes and motifs (love, religious and moral poetry, satirical and pure poetry). It also supplies a thorough examination of the various interactions between author, text and reader. Containing abundant quotation, it gives a refreshing introduction to an impressive and varied body of poetry from two continents, and is an accessible and wide-ranging reference-work, designed specifically for use on undergraduate and taught graduate courses. The most comprehensive work of its kind available, it will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.

Spanish contemporary poetry

Spanish contemporary poetry PDF Author: Diana Cullell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526111926
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Spanish contemporary poetry: An anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close readings of each poem. The anthology includes poems by twenty-two authors selected according to their literary rigour and with attention to the relevance of their work, a comprehensive introductory study, notes, thorough individual commentaries to the poems, and lists of selected vocabulary and rhetorical terms that provide accessibility to the anthology. The poetic selection is divided into sections and subsections in order to aid its pedagogical intent, covering: the poetry written during the transition to democracy; the emergence of poetry written by women in the 1980s; the Spanish poetic field of the 1990s; the poetry written at the turn of the new millennium; and some of the youngest voices in Spanish poetry today. English-speaking students working in the field of Hispanic literature, but also a more general reader keen on literature written in Spanish language, should thoroughly enjoy this work.

The Poetry of Francisco Brines

The Poetry of Francisco Brines PDF Author: Judith Nantell
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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"Brines's seven poetry collections offer a sustained inquiry into three fundamental philosophical themes: knowledge, the present moment, and non-being. These themes, however, are presented as conflictual differences. The numerous poetic voices heard throughout his poetry continually wrestle with knowledge perpetually oscillating with ignorance, the present moment unceasingly becoming past, and human existence endlessly displaying its own finitude. In this study, the critical interpretation of these themes leads to the critical exploration of language, the signifying process of language, and the warring forces of signification. The sign is thus viewed as a structure of difference and as such it endlessly displays the duplicitous nature of language engaged in a semantic struggle with itself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Twilight of the Avant-garde

The Twilight of the Avant-garde PDF Author: Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846311837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Twilight of the Avant-Garde addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.