The poetics of apocalypse : Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York / Martha J. Nandorfy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nandorfy, Martha, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Poeta en Nueva York.

García Lorca, Federico.

Death in literature.

Apocalypse in literature.

Physical Description:

318 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

1. From Silence to Prophecy to Silence 33

Silence as Repudiation of an Empty World 33

From Despair to Hope: The Poet Chronicles New York and Envisions the End 37

The Double-edged Sword of Language 56

2. The Spatialization of Time and the Objects of Desire 73

Cosmic Empathy through Mythical Consciousness 73

The Spatial Evasion of Time 79

Hell and Paradise on Earth 86

3. Apocalypse: Social Revolution and Spiritual Renewal in the Void 105

Apostrophe and Apocalyptic Discourse 105

Apostrophe as Self-positioning in Book of Poems and Poet in New York 113

Collective Apocalypse in "The King of Harlem" 125

Subjective Apocalypse: Suicide by Drowning in "Double Poem of Lake Eden" 140

Apocalyptic Elegy: "Ode to Walt Whitman" 147

4. Sacrifice and Self-Effacement 164

Devouring the Sacrificial Body 164

Deathscapes: Solitude with Liberated Horse 184

Magical Numbers and Disappearing Acts 197

5. The End of Words: Dancing and Drawing with the Duende 209

Prelude: Entropic and Dynamic Deaths 209

The Dance of Death in the Old World, New World, and No World 216

Sublime Images: Drawing the Unsayable 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-307) and index.

ISBN:

0838755356

OCLC:

50684270