García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism - The Aesthetics of Anguish

García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico García Lorca.

List of contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Abbreviations
Note on Translations
Introduction: Foundations for a Dissident Surrealism
Chapter 1: Spanish Surrealism's Absent Father: Sub-Realism from Juan Larrea to Federico García Lorca
Chapter 2: Burning in the Void: An Aesthetics of Informe in Lorca's New York
Chapter 3: Truth, Mutation, and the Closure of Representation: Sovereign Identity in Lorca's Retablillo and El público
Chapter 4: Rotten Roses and Other Botanical Bereavements: Vanguardist Floral (Dis)arrangements and Lorca's Doña Rosita
Chapter 5: Lorca and Bataille Beyond Surrealism: Sonetos del amor oscuro and the Erotic Imperative
Conclusion: An Ethics of Informe
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By David F. Richter

Product details

• Authors: David F Richter, David F. Richter
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2014
• EAN: 9781611485752
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-575-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 659 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies