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Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century : Modernity and Beyond.

Debicki, Andrew.

Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century : Modernity and Beyond.

Debicki, Andrew.

9780813158273

Debicki, Andrew.

1 online resource (270 pages)

Studies in Romance Languages

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Apogee of Modernity in Spain, 1915-1928 -- One View of Modernity -- High Modernity in Spain, 1915-1924 -- The Poetics of the Generation of 1927 -- The Poem as Icon -- 2. Currents in Spanish Modernity, 1915-1939 -- A Strand of Indeterminacy, 1915-1928 -- A Loss of Purity: Spanish Modernity, 1929-1936 -- A New Determinism: Committed Poetry -- 3. After the War, 1940-1965 -- From Message to Form: Garcilaso, Formalism, Cantico, 1940-1949 -- A New Realistic Poetics, 1944-1960 -- Testimonial Poetry, 1944-1960: The Communication of Personal, Religious, and Existential Emotions -- Notes of Indeterminacy: Postismo, Surrealism -- Social and Political Poetry, 1950-1965 -- Poets in Exile -- 4. New Directions for Spanish Poetry, 1956-1970 -- A New Era, a New Poetics -- Experience and Discovery by the New Castilian Poets -- Andalusian Poets, 1956-1970 -- The School of Barcelona -- Older Poets, New Consciousness, New Forms -- 5. The Postmodern Time of the Novisimos, 1966-1980 -- A Poetics of Language -- Art as Elevation and Refuge: Gimferrer, Carnero, Azua, Cuenca -- Popular Culture, the Irrational, Surrealism -- Return to the Personal: Alvarez, Villena, Colinas -- Contained Form, Silence, Self-Referentiality -- Established Poets, New Directions -- 6. The Evolution of Postmodern Poetry, 1978-1990 -- A Very Immediate Past -- From Silence to Essence -- New Directions, Established Poets: Expressions of Feeling and Experience -- Expressive Poetry: New Voices I -- Expressive Poetry: New Voices II -- From Expression to Satire, Irony, and Subversion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Spanish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

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