Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism : The Tragic Aesthetic of the Vates Poets.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fehskens, Matthew, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern.

Prophecy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

A transatlantic study of Hispanic literary modernism's use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern nihilism and provide modernity with poetry as its new Scripture, a phenomenon developed in Spanish across nations, creeds, genders and literary traditions.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Birdsong of Armenteira: Literary Bergsonism in the Prophetic Literature of Hispanic Modernism

2 The Curse of Cassandra: Modernista Prophets in Exile

3 Puta or Madre: The Inverted Prophecies of Delmira Agustini and Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira

4 The Prophet's Pilgrimage: Enrique Gómez Carrillo and the Prophetic Tradition of Al Andalus in Hispanic Modernism's Crónica

5 The Jesuit Roots of Hispanic Modernism: A Planetary Phenomenon

Epilogue

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765126813

9798765126806

9798765126790

OCLC:

1520506469