This Ghostly Poetry : Reading Spanish Republican Exiles between Literary History and Poetic Memory / Daniel Aguirre-Otezia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aguirre Oteiza, Daniel, Author.

Series:

Toronto Iberic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles' writings, Spanish--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, Spanish.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Literature and the war.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This Ghostly Poetry explores the fraught relationship between poetry and literary history in the context of the Spanish Civil War, its aftermath, and ongoing debates about historical memory in Spain.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: On Forewords and Historical Ghosts

Part One

Exiles in Literary History

2 Re-Engaging with Ghosts in the Poetic Machine

3 Writing the War, Re-Writing the Nation, Embodying the Voice of the People

Part Two

Exiles in Poetic Memory

4 Juan Ramón Jimenez: "Photography Is Death Itself" − Visionary Poetics, Ruins, and the Testimony of Antonio Machado

5 Luis Cernuda: "Remember Him and Remember Him to Others" − Historical Memory, Self-Elegy, and Mythopoetic Figuration

6 Max Aub

I. "Enclosed into Myself, Purblind, Mute"

Margins of the Poetic "I" and Testimonial Memory

II. Usurping the Apocryphal: Exilic Testimony, Cosmopolitan Memory, and National Culture (The Case of Antonio Muñoz Molina)

7 Tomás Segovia: "In Exile from Exile" − Nomadic Ethics and the Broken Language of Ghosts

CODA: Antonio Machado's Afterlives and Memories of Spanish Literary History

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1885-4

1-4875-1884-6

OCLC:

1150173272