Poetry, physics, and painting in twentieth-century Spain
By: Candelas Gala
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230338357
Subjects: Spain; History; History and criticism; Influence; Spanish poetry; Literature and science; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; Physics in literature; Cubism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "This book reads the work of Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego, Rafael Alberti, Concha Méndez, and Federico García Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Candelas Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism"--
Table of contents: title: The poetry of the imponderable : Pedro Salinas' vocation : unreliable perception, certainty of chance, and the reality of fabling; title: Jorge Guillén's radiant matter : a sensational knowledge; title: Confluence, field theory, and Juan Larrea's "Versión celeste"; title: Creating worlds : self-reflexivity and the cosmos in Gerardo Diego's "Poetry of Creation"; title: Rafael Alberti's Comet or the poetics of energy and light : from electromagnetism to thermodynamics; title: Concha Méndez : poetry of energy, poetry as energy; title: Lorca's "Suites" and "Canciones" : cubism, light, and the uncertainty of reflections.