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The Twilight of the Avant-Garde - Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 (Hardcover)
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The Twilight of the Avant-Garde - Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 1
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the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org).
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 Garcia
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 attempt to
'normalise' poetry, to make it accessible to the common reader,
Mayhew views it as a reactionary move that ultimately reduces
poetry to the status of a minor genre. The author then turns his
attention to the poetry of Jose Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda,
whose poetry embodies the continuation of modernism, and to the
work of younger women poets of the last two decades of the
twentieth century. Throughout this controversial and provocative
book, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic
language in relation to the larger culture and society. It turns
out that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics is still highly
relevant even in an age in which more cynical views of literature
seem prevalent. Ultimately, Mayhew writes as an advocate for the
survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing
in the postmodern age."
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