Research Catalog

Title

José Emilio Pacheco and the poets of the shadows / Ronald J. Friis.

Author

Friis, Ronald J.

Publication

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2001.

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Description

220 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Uniform Title

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.

Subject

Pacheco, José Emilio > Poetic works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Script -- 1. Los elementos de la noche and the Flight of the Warrior -- 2. El reposo del fuego: Venomous Language and the City as Sign -- 3. The Postmodern Twists of No me preguntes como pasa el tiempo -- 4. The Mirror and the Scrapbook: Iras y no volveras and Islas a la deriva -- 5. Twilight of the Inner Eye: Desde entonces -- 6. Afterword: Ninguneo and the Politics of Intertextuality.

ISBN

0838754929 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001035468

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Harvard Library