The Twilight of the Avant-Garde Spanish Poetry 1980–2000

Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Jonathan Mayhew first offers a critical analysis of the called 'poetry...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayhew, Jonathan, 1960- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2009.
Series:Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures.
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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"
  • Jose 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.