Delmira Agustini, sexual seduction, and vampiric conquest / Cathy L. Jrade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jrade, Cathy Login.

Series:

Major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature and the arts.

Major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agustini, Delmira, 1886-1914--Criticism and interpretation.

Agustini, Delmira.

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

Uruguayan poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive appropriation of vampirism, and her morbid embrace of death and pain. No work until now, however, has shown how her poetry reflects a search for an alternative, feminized discourse, a discourse that engages in an imaginative dialogue with Rubén Darío's recourse to literary paternity and undertakes an audacious rewriting of social, sexual, and poetic conventions.In the first major exploration of Agustini's life and work, Cathy L. Jrade examines her energizing appropriation and reinvention of modernista verse and the dynamics of her breakthrough poetics, a poetics that became a model for later women writers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1. Agustini and Her World

CHAPTER 2. The Dialogue Begins: El libro blanco (Frágil)

CHAPTER 3. Drinking from the Fountain of the Other: Cantos de la mañana

CHAPTER 4. Turning Loss into Empowerment: Los cálices vacíos

CHAPTER 5. Aspirations and Abiding Disappointments: Los astros del abismo

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-280-67803-8

9786613654960

0-300-18341-0

OCLC:

797815132