Author: Mervyn Coke-EnguidanosPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729301398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Word and Work in the Poetry of Juan Ramon Jimenez
Author: Mervyn Coke-EnguidanosPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729301398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez.
Author: Julio Hans C. JensenPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763536471
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958; Nobel laureate 1956) wrote at a key moment in literary history. Since Jiménez’s lyrical output covers the poetic tradition from Romanticism through Symbolism to the Avant-Gardes, his work can be regarded as a condensation of the modern paradigm. Julio Jensen investigates the lyrical subject appearing in Jiménez’s poetry as exemplary of the notion of modern subjectivity. He does so by assuming a historical correlation between literature and philosophy in the sense that if philosophical discourse conceptualizes the prevailing understanding of the human being at a given moment, literary discourse represents it. Modern thought does not accept any other foundation than subjectivity. At the same time, the awareness of the subject’s finitude engenders pessimism with respect to its status as world-generating principle. One of the primary aims of this study, then, is to show how Jiménez poignantly enacts this vacillation between self-enthronement and self-eradication. With insightful readings of Jiménez’s poetry, the author opens a rich vein in the work of a writer who would serve as a central reference for later Spanish-language poets such as Federico Garcá Lorca, Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz.
The Prose of Juan Ramón Jiménez
Author: Michael P. PredmoreCatalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Self and Image in Juan Ramón Jiménez
Author: John Chapman WilcoxPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Alfonso Reyes and Spain
Author: Barbara Bockus ApontePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292733380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Alfonso Reyes, the great humanist and man of letters of contemporary Spanish America, began his literary career just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He spearheaded the radical shift in Mexico's cultural and philosophical orientation as a leading member of the famous "Athenaeum Generation." The crucial years of his literary formation, however, were those he spent in Spain (1914-1924). He arrived in Madrid unknown and unsure of his future. When he left, he had achieved both professional maturity and wide acclaim as a writer. This book has, as its basis, the remarkable correspondence between Reyes and some of the leading spirits of the Spanish intellectual world, covering not only his years in Spain but also later exchanges of letters. Although Reyes always made it clear that he was a Mexican and a Spanish American, he became a full-fledged member of the closed aristocracy of Spanish literature. It was the most brilliant period in Spain's cultural history since the Golden Age, and it is richly represented here by Reyes' association with five of its most important figures: Miguel de Unamuno and Ramón del Valle-Inclán were of the great "Generation of 98"; among the younger writers were José Ortega y Gasset, essayist and philosopher; the Nobel poet Juan Ramón Jiménez; and Ramón Gómez de la Serna, a precursor of surrealism. Alfonso Reyes maintained lifelong friendships with these men, and their exchanges of letters are of a dual significance. They reveal how the years in Spain allowed Reyes to pursue his vocation independently, thereby prompting him to seek universal values. Coincidentally, they provide a unique glimpse into the inner world of those friends—and their dreams of a new Spain.
Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Author: Andrew DebickiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
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 inter-ested in comparative literature.
Studies in 20th Century Literature
Author: Pequeña historia de Juan Ramón Jiménez
Author: José Antonio García BarrigaPublisher: Editorial Mediterrània, SL
ISBN: 849979579X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Libro ilustrado sobre la biografía del poeta español Juan Ramón Jiménez, que fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1956. Ejerció gran influencia en la Generación del 27. Entre sus obras más importantes, "Platero y yo" y "Diario de un poeta recién casado".
Juan Ramon Jimenez: Platero and I
Author: Salvador Ortiz-CarboneresPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800345046
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1956 winner of the Nobel Prize, published Platero and I in 1914. Like Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland , Platero and I is a book not only for children, but for adults as well. It is an allegory of the deepest human emotions.