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9780773449466

Surrealismo en la Poesia de Xavier Villaurrutia, Octavin Paz, y Luis Cernuda. Mexico (1926-1963)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780773449466

  • ISBN10:

    0773449469

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-12-05
  • Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
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List Price: $139.95

Summary

This work demonstrates how Mexican Surrealist poetry from the 1930s to the 1960s pursues a reconciliation of opposites. Drawing on scholarly theories and the work of Luis Mario Schneider, Michael Riffaterre, James Valender, Anthony Stanton, Manuel lJlacia, Paul Friederich, Eichenbaum and Shklovsky, this book analyzes how Villaurrutia, Paz, and Cemuda employed surrealist metaphors to bring together antithetical or complementary states: dream and vigil, life and death, past and present, writing and erotic desire. Whereas Villaurrutia's penumbral surrealism draws on marginal exponents of the movement such as Jean Cocteau, or precursors such as Giorgio de Chirico, Paz resurrects the surrealistic dualism of ancient gods already present in Cantares de los antiguos mexicanos. For his part, the Spaniard Luis Cemuda a poet from the Generation of27, exiled in Mexico, reveals oneiric aspects of the Mexican landscape, defamiliarizing the image in a style suggestive of Louis Aragon in Le Paysan de Paris.

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