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The Twilight of the Avant-Garde

By Jonathan Mayhew

The Twilight of the Avant-Garde Contemporary literature

The Twilight of the Avant-Garde

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"Twilight of the Avant-Garde" addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2009-07-15
Publication Date:
2009-05-01
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1846311837
ISBN13:
9781846311833
Weight:
454 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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