The Twilight of the Avant-Garde : Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 / Jonathan Mayhew
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- [Place of publication not identified] : Liverpool University Press, [date of publication not identified]
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- 1 online resource
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- Contents:
- Part one. The avant-garde and its discontents : the place of poetry in contemporary Spanish culture -- Aesthetic conservatism in recent Spanish poetry -- Three apologies for poetry -- Poetry, politics, and power -- Part Two. Valente, Gamoneda, and the "Generation of the 1950s" -- In search of ordinary language : revisiting the "Generation of the 1950s" -- José Ángel Valente's Lectura de Paul Celan : translation and the Heideggerian tradition in Spain -- Antonio Gamoneda's Libro de los venenos : the limits of genre -- Part Three. Women poets of the 1980s and 1990s -- Gender under erasure (Amparo Amorós, Luisa Castro) -- Desire deferred : Ana Rossetti's Punto umbrío -- Concha García : the end of epiphany -- Lola Velasco's El movimiento de las flores and the limits of criticism. and Part one. The avant-garde and its discontents : the place of poetry in contemporary Spanish culture -- Aesthetic conservatism in recent Spanish poetry -- Three apologies for poetry -- Poetry, politics, and power -- Part Two. Valente, Gamoneda, and the "Generation of the 1950s" -- In search of ordinary language : revisiting the "Generation of the 1950s" -- Jose⁺ѓ A⁺ѓngel Valente's Lectura de Paul Celan : translation and the Heideggerian tradition in Spain -- Antonio Gamoneda's Libro de los venenos : the limits of genre -- Part Three. Women poets of the 1980s and 1990s -- Gender under erasure (Amparo Amoro⁺ѓs, Luisa Castro) -- Desire deferred : Ana Rossetti's Punto umbri⁺ѓo -- Concha Garci⁺ѓa : the end of epiphany -- Lola Velasco's El movimiento de las flores and the limits of criticism.
- Summary:
- 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 Jose; 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.
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- 9781846315947 (online)
1846315948
9781846311833
1846311837
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