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Author Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia, author.

Title Cities in ruins : the politics of modern poetics / by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Published West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 363 pages)
Series Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; volume 50
Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 50.
Contents Introduction: cities in ruins: the politics of modern poetics -- Urban ruins in Charles Baudelaire's and Luis Cernuda's poetics -- Cities in ruins: the burlesque baroque in T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz -- The Spanish Civil War: a transatlantic vision -- Pablo Neruda's cities in ruins: poetic histories from Madrid to Machu Picchu -- The effects of the real: reading ruins in modern poetry
Summary "Modern poetry on ruins performs an awakening call to the lurking real, to the violence of history in the making. The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. The awakening can take the shape of bombs in Kabul and Baghdad, or political change in government policies, but it is also palpable when poetry voices a critique of the technological warfare and its versions of progress. Contemporary events and the modern ruins are reminiscent of the political impact that the Spanish Civil War and the two World Wars had on poetry. In Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Enjuto Rangel analyzes how Charles Baudelaire, Luis Cernuda, T. S. Eliot, Octavio Paz, and Pablo Neruda poeticized ruins as the cornerstones of cultural and political memory, and used the imagery of ruins to reinterpret their historical and literary traditions."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Poetry, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Ruins in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Cities and towns in literature
Poetry, Modern
Ruins in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010025254
ISBN 9781612491721
1612491723