LEADER 05291nam 2200673 450 001 9910460577103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78284-241-1 010 $a1-78284-243-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000461628 035 $a(EBL)2145012 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530946 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12631533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530946 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11531636 035 $a(PQKB)11198493 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2145012 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2145012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11091583 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL848407 035 $a(OCoLC)918624033 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000461628 100 $a20150212d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMadrid's forgotten avant-garde $ebetween essentialism and modernity /$fSilvina Schammah Gesser 210 1$aBrighton ;$aChicago :$cSussex Academic Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (363 p.) 225 1 $aSussex studies in Spanish history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84519-384-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface by Series Editor Tim Rees; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I Dangerous Liaisons: Aesthetics, Identities and Politics; II Essentialism/Modernity; III Essentialist and Modern Imageries: An Historical Overview; IV Intellectuals, the Avant-Garde and Intelligentsia; Chapter One: Identity Crisis and Reverence for Modernity; I The Shaping of National Images; II Distressing Modernity: Miguel de Unamuno as Prophet of Doom; III Triggering Modernity: Ortega y Gasset as Disciplined Mentor; Chapter Two: Alternative Images of Modernity 327 $aI From Imperialism to National-Socialist CatalonianismII Noucentisme: Modernity in an Authoritarian Mode; III Bizkaitarrismo: An Essentialist Reaction to Modernity; IV The Hermes Paradox; V Unamuno and His Double; Chapter Three: Primorriverismo, an Authoritarian Undertaking; I Myths and Corporatism; II The Intellectuals' Response: Between Proselytism and Contempt; Chapter Four: The Creation of Madrid's Avant-Garde; I Institutional Contexts; (A) Catching Up with Modernity: The Institucio?n Libre de Ensen?anza; (B) La Residencia de Estudiantes: A Spanish "Oxbridge" 327 $a(C) El Centro de Estudios Histo?ricos: 'Professionalizing' the Humanities and 'Nationalizing' TraditionII Pioneers, Itineraries and Publications; (A) Ramo?n, L'Enfant Terrible; (B) Rafael Cansinos Assens, the Embodiment of a Literato; (C) Ortega's Dehumanized Art Versus Neo-Popularism; (D) The Journal Circles; III Between Avant-Gardism and Hispanic Baroque; (A) Dadaist Provocation or Auto de Fe? Disquieting Images in the Commemoration of Don Luis de Go?ngora; Chapter Five: The Emergence of an Urban Intelligentsia; I Competing Discourses of National Renewal 327 $aII Partnerships for Change: Down with Monarchy and Dictatorship!III "New Romanticism" and "National Syndicalism": Opposites that Converge?; Chapter Six: The "People" in Rafael Alberti's Proletarian Vision of Culture; I In Search of a Modern Spanish Identity; (A) A Vanguardist Crisis; (B) The Political Turn: The Artist as Republican?; (C) The Russian Connection; (D) The Octubre Project; (E) The Marxism of a Gaditano Poet; Chapter Seven: The "Nation" in Ernesto Gime?nez Caballero's Aestheticization of Politics; I Autodidactism: The Personal Search of a Petit Bourgeois Madrilenian 327 $a(A) The Moroccan Experience(B) Imperial Circuit, The Italian Connection; (C) Vanguard Techniques, Reactionary Messages; (D) La Gaceta Literaria in a Fascist Key; (E) Mythmaking and the Resurgence of the Nation; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover 330 $aMadrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity that polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry-in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters the Generation of '27-created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Author Silvina Schammah Gesser exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as the 410 0$aSussex studies in Spanish history. 606 $aLiterature, Experimental$zSpain$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zSpain$zMadrid$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zSpain$zMadrid$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMadrid (Spain)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature, Experimental$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a860.9/11 700 $aSchammah Gesser$b Silvina$0866703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460577103321 996 $aMadrid's forgotten avant-garde$91934655 997 $aUNINA