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1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file |
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Toronto Iberic ; 51
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Toronto Iberic ; 51.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet's war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry's high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco's victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: On Forewords and Historical Ghosts -- Part One -- Exiles in Literary History -- 2 Re-Engaging with Ghosts in the Poetic Machine -- 3 Writing the War, Re-Writing the Nation, Embodying the Voice of the People -- Part Two -- Exiles in Poetic Memory -- 4 Juan Ramón Jimenez: "Photography Is Death Itself" − Visionary Poetics, Ruins, and the Testimony of Antonio Machado |
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5 Luis Cernuda: "Remember Him and Remember Him to Others" − Historical Memory, Self-Elegy, and Mythopoetic Figuration -- 6 Max Aub -- I. "Enclosed into Myself, Purblind, Mute" -- Margins of the Poetic "I" and Testimonial Memory -- II. Usurping the Apocryphal: Exilic Testimony, Cosmopolitan Memory, and National Culture (The Case of Antonio Muñoz Molina) -- 7 Tomás Segovia: "In Exile from Exile" − Nomadic Ethics and the Broken Language of Ghosts -- CODA: Antonio Machado's Afterlives and Memories of Spanish Literary History -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Exiles' writings, Spanish -- History and criticism.
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Exiles' writings, Spanish. |
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Spanish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Spanish poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Literature and the war.
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Ghosts in literature.
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Ghosts in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. |
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War and literature. |
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Spain. |
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Spanish Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aguirre Oteiza, Daniel. This ghostly poetry. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020 1487503814 9781487503819 (OCoLC)1127192711 |
| ISBN |
9781487518851 electronic book |
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1487518854 electronic book |
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1487518846 electronic book |
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9781487518844 electronic book |
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