The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's 'Proverbios Y Cantres'

Klappentext Antonio Machado (1875-1939) was one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets. In this volume! Nicolas Fernandez-Medina focuses on Machado's folkloric "Proverbios y cantares!" a collection of short! proverbial poems that he wrote between 1909 and 1937. Through close examination of the poems! Fernandez-Medina shows Machado's great debt to earlier writers and thinkers! such as Plato! Kant! Schlegel! and Unamuno. 'Fernandez-Medina's book, with its decent bibliography and helpful index, shows that the finite inquiry into the works of Antonio Machado is far from being exhausted. This text is a serious and welcome contribution to that process.' - Philip G. Johnston, Bulletin of Spanish Studies August 2013 Zusammenfassung Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. In his book! Nicolas Fernandez-Medina shows how Machado's poetry and philosophy combine in the folkloric poetry of the Proverbios y cantares" to critique Spain's cultural milieu during the first decades of the twentieth century.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nicol¿ Fern¿ez-Medina, Nicolas Fernandez-Medina, Nicolás Fernández-Medina
• Edition: University Of Chicago Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.03.2011
• EAN: 9780708323229
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2322-9
• Pages: 240
• Thèmes: Iberian and Latin American Studies; Iberian and Latin American Stu; Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, of, Spanish, Poetics, Antonio, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, y, Otherness, Machado's, 'proverbios, Cantares'