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Children of the Mire Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition

Paz, Octavio
Heftet / 1991 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780674116290
Publisert
1991-05-22
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
295 gr
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Paz, Octavio
Oversetter
Phillips Rachel

Biographical note

Octavio Paz was the author of more than forty volumes of poetry and prose.

Children of the Mire Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition

Paz, Octavio
Heftet / 1991 / Engelsk
Paz, Octavio
Heftet / 1991 / Engelsk
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A very agile mind throws off ideas both dazzling and endlessly arguable.

Washington Post Book World

[Paz] moves in the vanguard and his writing, rich in learning, startling in insight, controlled in style, worldwide in its reverberations, attacks our preconceptions of the Latin American mind and its verbal mode.

- Ronald Christ, Partisan Review

[Paz] writes with such lucid density, such dialectical panache, such agreement of scope and precision, such flings of the hooks of reference, that his book is an instant classic.

- Calvin Bedient, New Republic

Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the “incestuous and tempestuous” relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Latin American poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word “modern” has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American “modernism” within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis-à-vis French and Spanish poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era’s attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the “twilight of the idea of the future.” He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.
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A very agile mind throws off ideas both dazzling and endlessly arguable.

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A very agile mind throws off ideas both dazzling and endlessly arguable.

Washington Post Book World

[Paz] moves in the vanguard and his writing, rich in learning, startling in insight, controlled in style, worldwide in its reverberations, attacks our preconceptions of the Latin American mind and its verbal mode.

- Ronald Christ, Partisan Review

[Paz] writes with such lucid density, such dialectical panache, such agreement of scope and precision, such flings of the hooks of reference, that his book is an instant classic.

- Calvin Bedient, New Republic

Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the “incestuous and tempestuous” relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Latin American poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word “modern” has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American “modernism” within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis-à-vis French and Spanish poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era’s attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the “twilight of the idea of the future.” He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.
Les mer
A very agile mind throws off ideas both dazzling and endlessly arguable.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674116290
Publisert
1991-05-22
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
295 gr
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Paz, Octavio
Oversetter
Phillips Rachel

Biographical note

Octavio Paz was the author of more than forty volumes of poetry and prose.

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