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The twilight of the avant-garde [electronic resource] : Spanish poetry 1980-2000 / Jonathan Mayhew.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author: Mayhew, Jonathan, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2009.
Series:Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures.
Subjects:
Spanish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Spanish poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.
  • 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.

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