Poetry in Pieces - Cesar Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

Zusatztext "Ground-breaking. . . . Combines a highly attuned sense of the cultural milieu in which Vallejo lived with a set of original readings of his poems." Informationen zum Autor Michelle Clayton is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California! Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung Presents a major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938). This title combines 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. New World Views 6. Making Poetry History Conclusion: Poetry and Crime Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Clayton
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2011
• EAN: 9780520262294
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26229-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Flashpoints; Flashpoints (University of Cal; Flashpoints
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology