The Terrain Of Poetry And Cultural Memory In The First Spanish Avant Garde 1914 1925

Download or read book The Terrain of Poetry and Cultural Memory in the First Spanish Avant-garde (1914-1925). written by Reně M. Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Spanish avant-garde embraced the Europeanization that followed Spain's World War I neutrality by contesting the fin-de-siecle rooting of identity in an authentic national landscape. The poetry of the avant-garde movements Ultraismo and Creacionismo represent the cosmopolitan as opposed to the national through the fragmented lens of modern perception. As a result, the topography of their texts becomes broken apart, at once producing and re-producing the atomized existence of the subject. This dissertation draws on archival material as it examines the shift from locating identity in a restricted view of the national landscape to mapping cosmopolitan subjectivity in a flexible space.