Selected Prose and Prose-Poems

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Tapscott is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Klappentext The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry.This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects pieces that reveal Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the practice of teaching; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's own writing practices; and her social beliefs. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life and a brief introduction to her career and prose. Zusammenfassung This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Biographical DataPrincipal PublicationsI. Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth El marThe SeaLa cebraThe ZebraEl faisán doradoThe Golden PheasantLa harinaFlourElogio de la salIn Praise of SaltEl higoThe FigLa piñaThe PineappleLa tortugaThe TortoisePanBreadLa jirafaThe GiraffeLa alpacaThe AlpacaEl girasolThe SunflowerElogio del cristalIn Praise of GlassElogio de la arenaIn Praise of SandSegundo elogio de la arenaSecond Praise-Song for the SandII. Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación/Desolation (1922) La oración de la maestraThe Teacher's PrayerLos cabellos de los niñosChildren's HairPoemas de las madresPoems of the Mothers I. Poemas de las madresI. Poems of the MothersII. Poemas de la madre más tristeII. Poems of the Saddest MotherNotaNoteCanciones de cunaLullabiesMotivos del barroMotifs of ClayLa flor de cuatro pétalosThe Four-Petaled FlowerPoemas del éxtasisPoems of EcstasyEl arteArtDecálogo del artistaDecalogue of the ArtistComentarios a poemas de Rabindranath TagoreCommentary on Poems by Rabindranath TagoreLecturas espiritualesSpiritual ReadingsMotivos de la PasiónMotifs of the PassionPoemas del hogarPoems of the HomeProsa escolar/Cuentos escolaresScholarly Prose/Stories for Schools Por qué las cañas son huecasWhy Bamboo Canes Are HollowPor qué las rosas tienen espinasWhy Roses Have ThornsLa raíz del rosalThe Root of the RosebushEl cardoThe ThistleLa charcaThe PuddleIII. Lyrical Biographies Canto a San FranciscoSong to Saint FrancisSilueta de Sor Juana Inés de la CruzProfile of Sor Juana Inés de la CruzIV. Literary Essays, Journalism, "Messages" Decir el sueñoTo Declare the DreamPensamientos pedagógicosThoughts on TeachingSilueta de la india mexicanaProfile of the Mexican Indian Woma...

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• Authors: Gabriela Mistral
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780292752665
• ISBN: 978-0-292-75266-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature