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dc.contributor.authorMayhew, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-25 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:21:59Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:21:59Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier389223
dc.identifierOCN: 798294446en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34642
dc.description.abstractTwilight 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 García 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 José 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesContemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poetsen_US
dc.subject.othermontero
dc.subject.othergamoneda
dc.subject.othermoderne spaans poezie
dc.subject.othervalente
dc.subject.othercontemporary spanish poetry
dc.subject.otherAvant-garde
dc.subject.otherJaime Gil de Biedma
dc.subject.otherMartin Heidegger
dc.subject.otherPaul Celan
dc.titleThe Twilight of the Avant-Garde
dc.typebook
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oapen.relation.isFundedBy780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4
oapen.collectionOAPEN-UK
oapen.series.number1
oapen.pages192
oapen.place.publicationLiverpool
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Avant-garde - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde; Jaime Gil de Biedma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Gil_de_Biedma; Martin Heidegger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger; Paul Celan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celan; Poetry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry; Spanish poetry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_poetry
oapen.remark.public21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9781846311833
oapen.identifier.ocn798294446


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