Federico García Lorca: The Poetics of Self-Consciousness
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218 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

Series: Monografías A

Series Vol. Number: 288

Imprint: Tamesis Books

Federico García Lorca: The Poetics of Self-Consciousness

by Federico Bonaddio

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A study of Lorca's poetic trajectory.

This volume is one of few surveys in English of the whole of Lorca's poetry and the first to concentrate entirely on self-consciousness, a subject which it sees as central to our understanding of the work of a poet writing in themost self-conscious of literary periods: the Modernist era.
Focusing on poems which have the poet, art and creativity as their subject, or which draw attention at a formal level to issues of practice or style, it shows how these poems speak for or against contemporary aesthetic doctrine, thereby revealing the extent of the poet's allegiance to it and the positions he takes up in the process of making his own mark in the literary field. In so doing itcharts the development of a poet whose self-conscious engagement with his art offers an explanation as to why his work, in the space of little more than a decade and a half, should have been so singular and diverse.

FEDERICO BONADDIO lectures in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College London.
Introduction: Self-Consciously Lorca
Libro de Poemas: The Sincere Poet
Poema del cante jondo and the Suites: The Riddles of the Sphinx
Canciones: Autonomy and Self
Romancero gitano: Culture versus Nature
Poeta en Nueva York: Against Modernity
The Late Poetry: The Poet Recognized

FEDERICO BONADDIO is Reader in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College, London and has written on Spanish poetry, prose and film. He is editor of A Companion to Federico García Lorca (2007) and author of Federico García Lorca: The Poetics of Self-Consciousness (2010), both published by Tamesis.

"[A]n insightful book [...] on a subject worthy of further study." BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES

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August 2010

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Title Details

218 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

Series: Monografías A

Series Vol. Number: 288

Imprint: Tamesis Books