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Poetry and Crisis
Poetry and Crisis argues that the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, with poetry taking a unique role in reflecting new political and cultural realities.
Cultural Encounters in Contemporary Spain
Previous critical studies have focused on feminist approaches to Janes's oeuvre. This study seeks to expand those discussions through an analysis of the aesthetics of cultural otherness (rather than simply gendered otherness) within Janes's prolific literary production.
Marxism and Urban Culture
Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and historical movements, as well as urban-themed literary and filmic art. Conceived as a response to the persistent rift between disciplinary Marxist approaches to culture, this book prioritizes the urban problematic and builds implicitly and explicitly on work by numerous thinkers: not only Karl Mar...
The Twilight of the Avant-garde
Twilight of the Avant-Garde addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.
Masters of the Universe
How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar America and Britain Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free-market politics. Far from being the story of the simple triumph of right-wing ideas, the neoliberal breakthrough was contingent on the economic crises of the 1970s and the acceptance of the need for new policies by the political left. This edition includes a new foreword in which the author addresses the relationship between intellectual history and the history of politics and policy. Fascinating, important, and timely, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the history behind the Anglo-American love affair with the free market, as well as the origins of the current economic crisis.
Activism through Poetry
Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain. The work highlights the active role that poetry plays in the debate of these issues. The anthology begins with an introduction, which provides a theoretical framework and a critical analysis of each poem. It is an important contribution in the academic context and also in the more general context of international social and political action. It constitutes the first bilingual translation of selected poems written by well-known and emergent contemporary critical poets from Spain. The f...
Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas
This volume brings together studies on poetics, poetic arts, and other metapoetic texts by contemporary women poets from Spanish America. The fundamental contribution of the book lies in the valorization of the metapoetic and self-reflexive element in poetry written by women, since research on the topic has focused primarily, until today, on male authors.
Una obstinada imagen
Este volumen, dividido en dos partes, se propone indagar a un poeta español cuya lectura resulta imprescindible para conocer una de las voces sobresalientes del grupo del 50, todos ellos diversos y muchos todavía maestros de poetas, como en este caso. Entre la elegía y la celebración, Francisco Brines (Oliva, Valencia, 1932) construye un universo de “emociones pensadas” a partir del cual, en la primera parte de este libro, la autora analiza las alternativas del proyecto creador brineano en dos ejes interrelacionados: sus textos metapoéticos y la dicción “clásica”, que reescribe a antiguos y modernos, ambos trazados desde el “ethos” meditativo de una política poética singular, en la que acuerdan las postulaciones éticas, teóricas y morales del escritor valenciano. “El tiempo es mi cuerpo y mi enigma”, ha dicho Brines, y esas palabras alientan la selección de la Antología de la segunda parte, a través de la cual Marcela Romano nos regala una acertada muestra de una obra inmensa e intensa que los lectores podrán aquí disfrutar.
