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Verses against the darkness : Pablo Neruda's poetry and politics

Title
Verses against the darkness : Pablo Neruda's poetry and politics / Greg Dawes.
Author
Dawes, Greg.
Publication
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2006.

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Description
325 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"Verses Against the Darkness offers a new assessment of Pablo Neruda's poetry by looking at the intersection of his aesthetic views, method, and political radicalism from 1925 to 1954. It challenges the canonical view that Neruda was a gifted verse maker who, in 1936, let himself be carried away by the "excesses" of communist politics. Instead, by focusing primarily on Tercera residencia (1936-1945), Greg Dawes argues for an uneven yet steady evolution and continuity in Neruda's work, politics, and morality. Dawes relies on historical accounts, biographies, literary history, and criticism - and on Neruda's political and aesthetic theory - to prove that his poetry became, contrary to received critical opinion, more sophisticated literarily and politically as he became more radicalized during the Spanish civil war and World War II and as he developed his "dialectical realism" or "guided spontaneity.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 > Political and social views
  • Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973
  • Neruda, Pablo
  • Moral realism
  • Moral realism
  • Political and social views
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-319) and index.
Contents
Criticism and ideology : Neruda and the cold war -- Realism, surrealism, socialist realism, and Neruda's "guided spontaneity" -- Realism and the battle with language in the Residencias -- The struggle against alienation in Tercera residencia -- Neruda's moral realism in España en el corazón -- Blood and letters : Neruda and antifascism -- Neruda's work during the cold war.
ISBN
  • 0838756433
  • 9780838756430
LCCN
  • 2006012995
  • 9780838756430
OCLC
  • ocm67392785
  • 67392785
  • SCSB-9219490
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library