Poetry in pieces : Cesar Vallejo and lyric modernity / Michelle Clayton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clayton, Michelle, 1974-

Series:

Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 4.

FlashPoints ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vallejo, Cesar, 1892-1938--Criticism and interpretation.

Vallejo, Cesar.

Peruvian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Peruvian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings-Peru and Paris-which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo-and Latin American poetry-to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "The Whole, the Part!"

1. Pachyderms in Poetry and Prose

2. Invasion of the Lyric

3. Lyric Matters

4. Lyric Technique, Aesthetic Politics

5. Literature Under Pressure

6. Making Poetry History

Conclusion: Poetry and Crime

Appendix: Translations of Poems

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613277541

9781283277549

1283277549

9780520948280

0520948289

OCLC:

699475049