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Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists.
Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product.
By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism.
This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers interested in comparative literature.
Andrew Debicki is University Distinguished Professor of Spanish and vice-chancellor for research, graduate studies, and public service at the University of Kansas. He is the author of seven previous critical books, among them Poetry of Discovery: The Spanish Generation of1956-71.
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813108353
eISBN
9780813158273
Keywords
Spanish poetry, Modern literature, Modern poetry
Disciplines
Spanish Literature
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Recommended Citation
Debicki, Andrew, "Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond" (1995). Spanish Literature. 31.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_spanish_literature/31
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