Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1022
Release: 1962
Genre: Brazilian literature
ISBN:

The Twilight of the Avant-garde

The Twilight of the Avant-garde
Author: Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1846311837

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 José 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.

Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century

Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Author: Andrew Debicki
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0813189934

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.

A Silent Minority

A Silent Minority
Author: Susan Plann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520204713

"This book provides very important evidence that changes in institutional attitudes toward manual language can be traced to broader changes in the accepted conceptions of the nature of language. . . . [It] will prove to be a milestone in the developing discipline of deaf history."--Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence

Methods of Comparative Law

Methods of Comparative Law
Author: P. G. Monateri
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1781005117

Comprising an array of distinguished contributors, this pioneering volume of original contributions explores theoretical and empirical issues in comparative law. The innovative, interpretive approach found here combines explorative scholarship and research with thoughtful, qualitative critiques of the field. The book promotes a deeper appreciation of classical theories and offers new ways to re-orient the study of legal transplants and transnational codes. Methods of Comparative Law brings to bear new thinking on topics including: the mutual relationship between space and law; the plot that structures legal narratives, identities and judicial interpretations; a strategic approach to legal decision making; and the inner potentialities of the 'comparative law and economics' approach to the field. Together, the contributors reassess the scientific understanding of comparative methodologies in the field of law in order to provide both critical insights into the traditional literature and an original overview of the most recent and purposive trends. A welcome addition to the lively field of comparative law, Methods of Comparative Law will appeal to students and scholars of law, comparative law and economics. Judges and practitioners will also find much of interest here.

Contemporary Spanish Poetry

Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Author: Cecile West-Settle
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838640401

Debicki's illuminating application of varied critical methodologies and theoretical approaches, in books such as Poetry of Discovery and Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century, is reflected in all the essays included in this book."