Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond (Studies in Romance Languages) (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Debicki, Andrew P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813118697 ISBN 13: 9780813118697

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1994

Synopsis

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 modern 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 interested in comparative literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew P. Debicki is University Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Vice-Chancellor for Research, Graduate Studies, and Public Service at the University of Kansas.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0813118697
• ISBN 13: 9780813118697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1