New Lenses For Lorca Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata

by Cavanaugh, Cecelia

• ISBN13: 9781611483765
• ISBN10: 161148376X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-29
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
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Summary

This book examines the influence of science in the thought, creative process, writing, and drawing of Federico Garc a Lorca. It establishes the historical, cultural and biographical context in which Lorca encountered scientists and their work and studies the writing and drawing of scientists he came to know at the Residencia de estudiantes in Madrid. Others of Lorca s contemporaries who were also exploring science s possibilities for their work in writing, art and philosophy (Ortega y Gasset, Dal , Mara n) are read alongside the poet.By reading particular texts among Lorca "s lectures, letters, poetry, theater and drawings through the lens of the memoirs, lectures and drawings of scientists such as Santiago Ram n y Cajal and P o del R o-Hortega, a working poetics is established for each and comparisons are drawn. References in Lorca s work to science open a new reading of some of his texts. At the same time, Ram n y Cajal and del R o-Hortega s drawing and writing are analyzed as plastic and rhetorical works of art. The result is a study of the creative process in artist and scientist alike and their mutual influence.