|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to
Federico Garcia Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the
issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated
poet and dramatist. It considers past and current approaches to the
study of Lorca, and also suggests new directions for further
investigation. An introduction on the often contentious subject of
Lorca's biography is followed by five chapters - poetry, theatre,
music, drawing and cinema - which togetheracknowledge the polymath
in Lorca. A further three chapters - religion, gender and
sexuality, and politics - complete the volume by covering important
thematic concerns across a number of texts, concerns which must be
considered in the context of the iconic status that Lorca has
acquired and against the background of the cultural shifts
affecting his readership. The Companion is a testament to Lorca's
enduring appeal and, through its explication oftexts and
investigation of the man, demonstrates just why he continues, and
should continue, to attract scholarly interest. FEDERICO BONADDIO
lectures in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College London.
CONTRIBUTORS: FEDERICO BONADDIO, JACQUELINE COCKBURN, NIGEL DENNIS,
CHRISTOPHER MAURER, ALBERTO MIRA, ANTONIO MONEGAL, CHRIS PERRIAM,
XON DE ROS, ERIC SOUTHWORTH, D. GARETH WALTERS, SARAH WRIGHT
Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all
twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but
also for several collections of poems published both in his short
lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate,
and folklore of his native Andalusia, though he writes memorably of
New York and Cuba too. Writing often in modernist idiom, and full
of startling imagery, he evokes a world of intense feelings, silent
suffering, and dangerous love.
This unique parallel-text edition balances poems from Lorca's early
collections with his better-known later work, providing a clear
vision of his poetic development and drawing attention to the
brilliance and originality of some of the earlier work. Key poems
from all Lorca's collections appear here, including the recently
discovered Sonnets of Dark Love. Martin Sorrell's translations are
thoughtful and accomplished, and D. Gareth Walters's shrewd
Introduction, with its distinctive focus on the achievements of the
poet, gives a clear and balanced appraisal of the poetry, while
steering away from the tendency to mythologize Lorca's life and
death. This edition also includes helpful notes, a bibliography, a
chronology, and an index of titles.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more."
The treatment of mythological material in the poetry, prose, drama,
art and music of the Hispanic Baroque. Thirteen essays engage with
one of the most obsessive aspects of the Baroque aesthetic, a
dedicated commitment in distinct artistic contexts to the treatment
of mythological material. Within the various 'Baroques' uncovered,
thereis a single unity of purpose. Meaning is always negotiable,
but the process of interpretation is dependent upon intertextual
forms of understanding, and presupposes the active participation of
the receiver. The volume explores how the paradigmatic mythical
symbols of a Renaissance epistemological world view can be
considered a barometer of rupture and a gauge of the contradictory
impulses of the time. Essays explore the differing functions of
mythology in poetry [Quevedo, Espinosa, Gongora], prose
[Cervantes], drama [Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Calderon], art
[Velazquez], and music [Latin American opera]. Collectively they
trace the dialectic of continuity and rupture that underpins the
appropriation of classical mythology in the period; demonstrating
that the mythological legacy was not as uniform, as allegorically
dominated, nor as depleted of potential as we are sometimes led to
believe. ISABEL TORRES is Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at
Queen's University, Belfast. Contributors: JEAN ANDREWS , STEPHEN
BOYD, D. W. CRUICKSHANK, TREVOR. J. DADSON, B.W. IFE, ANTHONY
LAPPIN, OLIVER NOBLE WOOD, JEREMY ROBBINS, BRUCE SWANSEY, BARRY
TAYLOR, ISABEL TORRES, D. GARETH WALTERS
The first book-length study in English of the poetry of Salvador
Espriu [1913-85]. Two standpoints govern the approach taken to the
poetry of Salvador Espriu [1913-85] in this first extended study of
his work in English. First, the author explores the structural
implications of symmetry and numerology, in a chronological rather
than thematic survey of the poetry - a procedure that involves a
consideration of how each book [what could be termed in most cases
a macro-poem] attains its distinctive character while having common
preoccupations and stylistic traits. Secondly, he examines the
tension implicit in Espriu's poetry between involvement and
detachment or between the civic and the lyric. One issue addressed
is why Espriu is perceived both as the symbol of moral resistance
against Francoism and as a hermetic, 'difficult' poet. Central to
the study is an awareness of the precarious status of the Catalan
language in the period when Espriu wrote most of his poetry, and of
how his work represents, by dint of its linguistic character, an
act of defiance and affirmation, in Delor's view, a 'metalinguistic
literature'. D. GARETH WALTERS is Professor of Hispanic Studies at
the University of Swansea.
This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays
written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned
essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in
the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic
information about their content, composition, internal ordering,
publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration
to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the
title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on
their variety, unity, exemplarity,and supposed "hidden mystery".
After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume
concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the
understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the
dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient
features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a
Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd
is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University
College Cork.
This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays
written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned
essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in
the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic
information about their content, composition, internal ordering,
publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration
to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the
title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on
their variety, unity, exemplarity,and supposed 'hidden mystery'.
After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume
concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the
understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the
dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient
features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a
Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd
is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University
College Cork.
Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text
with parallel-text English verse translations. This edition of
Quevedo's Poems to Lisi is a successor to the same editor's
original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the
Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988). Rather than reprint
that edition, the editor has chosen to make the text more widely
available by setting his own English verse translations alongside
the Spanish originals. It is intended to provide undergraduates in
Hispanic Studies with an accessible edition of a key work of the
Spanish Golden Age. The translations are close enough to the
originals to be of value to those who have an adequate knowledge of
Spanish, while the rendering of the poems into English verse
(mainly blank verse sonnets) will enable those lacking such a
knowledge to read them as poems in their own right.
This comprehensive survey of Spanish poetry includes Iberian and Latin American writing from the Middle Ages to the present. Unlike most literary histories, it offers a non-chronological approach to the subject. It is arranged by genres and forms (epic, ballad, sonnet) and themes and motifs (love, religious and moral poetry, satirical and pure poetry). The wide-ranging selections in this reference make it appropriate for course use.
This comprehensive survey of Spanish poetry includes Iberian and Latin American writing from the Middle Ages to the present. Unlike most literary histories, it offers a non-chronological approach to the subject. It is arranged by genres and forms (epic, ballad, sonnet) and themes and motifs (love, religious and moral poetry, satirical and pure poetry). The wide-ranging selections in this reference make it appropriate for course use.
|
|