Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism (eBook)

From Post-Mortem to Post-Mystic

Robert Simon (Autor)

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2019
142 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6572-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu’s work within the 1980s post-"novísimo" movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible placement in the more recent mystical poetry of Spain.

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This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu's work within the 1980s post-"e;novisimo"e; movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible placement in the more recent mystical poetry of Spain. It provides a detailed textual analysis of her poetry, and in doing so reveals not only that her work encompasses notions of the surreal and the mystical but also, although Andreu has so far written entirely in Castilian (Spanish), that her poetry utilizes a variety of traditional Galician and Portuguese symbols and images. In this way her work challenges the boundaries between what we as readers may accept as a solely Castilian, Galician, or Spanish poetic. It bases its transtheoretical framework on findings from such fields as Galician studies, Iberian studies, mysticism studies, paradigm shift studies, and regional studies over the past two decades. Ultimately, this comprehensive and unique study shows how Andreu's multifaceted transnational work may pertain to, and expand, our knowledge of each of these areas of focus.

Autor

Robert Simon is professor of Spanish and Portuguese and coordinator of Portuguese at Kennesaw State University.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsForeword Introduction: Paradigm Shifts and Iberia’s Evolution: A Transtheoretical Framework for the Poetry of Blanca AndreuChapter I: A New Iberian Mysticism Chapter II: The Revived Galician PoeticChapter III: The Beginning of the Surrealist Mystic in De una niña de provincias que vino a vivir en un ChagallChapter IV: The Mystic’s World: Mystical Symbolism and Luso-Galician Identity in La tierra transparenteChapter V: The Re-incorporation of Blanca Andreu’s poetry in the Paradigm ShiftAppendixWorks CitedIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Blanca Andreu • Galicia • Galician Literature • Iberian Literature • Mysticism • Paradigm Shift • Poetry • Portuguese Literature • Postmodernism • Spanish Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6572-7 / 1498565727
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6572-1 / 9781498565721