The Terrain of Poetry and Cultural Memory in the First Spanish Avant-garde (1914-1925).
Author | : Reně M. Silverman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 0542923416 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780542923418 |
Rating | : 4/5 (418 Downloads) |
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.