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The Twilight of the Avant-garde. Spanish Poetry, 1980-2000.
Jonathan Mayhew
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Description for The Twilight of the Avant-garde. Spanish Poetry, 1980-2000.
Hardback. 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. This book offers an analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis Garcia Montero. Series Editor(s): Shaw, Lisa; Delgado, L.Elena. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 of experience' of Luis García Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 of experience' of Luis García Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311833
SKU
V9781846311833
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About Jonathan Mayhew
Jonathan Mayhew is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. He previously taught at Ohio State University and has published two books on contemporary Spanish poetry, Claudio Rodríguez and the Language of Poetic Vision (Bucknell UP, 1990) and The Poetics of Self-Consciousness (Bucknell UP, 1994).
Reviews for The Twilight of the Avant-garde. Spanish Poetry, 1980-2000.
Mayhew is a critic who is at the top of his game; he combines a breadth of knowledge of the field with acute analysis. John C. Wilcox The new book by Jonathan Mayhew brings together a joint trials stimulant, both about poets that have marked the evolution of the last poetry in Spain as on figures still little addressed ... Read more