Title: The poetics of self-consciousness : twentieth-century Spanish poetry /
Authors: Mayhew, Jonathan, 1960-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Spanish poetry History and criticism; Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.; Postmodernism (Literature) Spain.; Poetics; Poetics History
Abstract: Twentieth-century poetry engages in a highly self-conscious meditation on the nature of poetic language. Spanish poetry, however, has sometimes been considered an exception to this tendency. This book, with its focus on linguistic self-reflexivity, refutes the notion that major Spanish poets such as Jorge Guillen and Vicente Aleixandre are theoretically naive creators.
Contents: Introduction: Self-Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry -- 1. Jorge Guillen and the Insufficiency of Poetic Language -- 2. Pedro Salinas and the Semiotics of Poetry -- 3. Vicente Aleixandre: "Limites y espejo" -- 4. The Word Made Flesh: Logocentrism in the Later Work of Jose Angel Valente -- 5. Rhetoric and Truth in Antonio Gamoneda's Descripcion de la mentira -- 6. Jaime Gil de Biedma's Moralidades: Rationalism and Poetic Form -- 7. Postmodernism, Culturalism, Kitsch. I. The Novisimos: Culture and Counterculture. II. Guillermo Carnero: Ideas of Order. III. Jose Maria Alvarez: Postmodernism as Cultural Nostalgia. IV. The Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry in the 1980s.