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Poetry, physics, and painting in twentieth-century Spain
- Title
- Poetry, physics, and painting in twentieth-century Spain / Candelas Gala.
- Author
- Gala, Candelas, 1948-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 12-1406 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 252 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This book reads the work of Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego, Rafael Alberti, Concha Méndez, and Federico García Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Candelas Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The poetry of the imponderable : Pedro Salinas' vocation : unreliable perception, certainty of chance, and the reality of fabling -- Jorge Guillén's radiant matter : a sensational knowledge -- Confluence, field theory, and Juan Larrea's "Versión celeste" -- Creating worlds : self-reflexivity and the cosmos in Gerardo Diego's "Poetry of Creation" -- Rafael Alberti's Comet or the poetics of energy and light : from electromagnetism to thermodynamics -- Concha Méndez : poetry of energy, poetry as energy -- Lorca's "Suites" and "Canciones" : cubism, light, and the uncertainty of reflections.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-1406
- ISBN
- 9780230338357 (hc.)
- 0230338356 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2011033706
- OCLC
- YBP 2011033706
- Author
- Gala, Candelas, 1948-
- Title
- Poetry, physics, and painting in twentieth-century Spain / Candelas Gala.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-1406