Madrid's forgotten avant-garde : between essentialism and modernity / / Silvina Schammah Gesser

• Autore: Schammah Gesser Silvina
• Pubblicazione: Brighton ; ; Chicago : , : Sussex Academic Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Disciplina: 860.9/11
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Experimental - Spain - History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Spain - Madrid - History - 20th century; Literature and society - Spain - Madrid - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Madrid (Spain) Intellectual life 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front 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 ; I 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 Institución Libre de Enseñanza; (B) La Residencia de Estudiantes: A Spanish "Oxbridge" ; (C) El Centro de Estudios Históricos: 'Professionalizing' the Humanities and 'Nationalizing' TraditionII Pioneers, Itineraries and Publications; (A) Ramón, 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 Góngora; Chapter Five: The Emergence of an Urban Intelligentsia; I Competing Discourses of National Renewal ; II 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 Giménez Caballero's Aestheticization of Politics; I Autodidactism: The Personal Search of a Petit Bourgeois Madrilenian ; (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
• Sommario/riassunto: Madrid'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
• Titolo autorizzato: Madrid's forgotten avant-garde
• ISBN: 1-78284-241-1; 1-78284-243-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460577103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sussex studies in Spanish history.