Title: The subject in question : early contemporary Spanish literature and Modernism /
Authors: Soufas, C. Christopher, 1948-
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Spanish literature History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) Spain
Abstract: "The Subject in Question presents the first systematic study of "Spanish modernism" in an attempt to end Spain's literary isolation from the mainstream of early contemporary European literature. Traditionally, Spanish literature has been approached by the "literary generational model," an ultra-nationalist perspective that separates Spanish writing from its larger European modernist context. C. Christopher Soufas argues against further adherence to the generational groupings, establishing instead solid criteria for embracing the period category of modernism as a more appropriate model."--Jacket.
Contents: The Spanish literary generation and early contemporary literary history -- Modernism and Spain : aesthetics, ideology, tradition, subjectivity -- From the labyrinth : the Spanish modernist novel and the "new man" -- Modernist hieroglyphics : geographies of presence in the poetry of Jorge Guillén and Vicente Aleixandre -- Absence and experience in the poetry of Luis Cernuda and Rafael Alberti -- Subjective fragmentation in the theater of Federico García Lorca.