The subject in question: early contemporary Spanish literature and Modernism

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Spanish Literary Generation and Early Contemporary Literary History 19 2. Modernism and Spain: Aesthetics, Ideology, Tradition, Subjectivity 51 3. From the Labyrinth: The Spanish Modernist Novel and the “New Man” 85 4. Modernist Hieroglyphics: Geographies of Presence in the Poetry of Jorge Guillén and Vicente Aleixandre 127 5. Absence and Experience in the Poetry of Luis Cernuda and Rafael Alberti 166 6. Subjective Fragmentation in the Theater of Federico García Lorca 206 Conclusion 244 Works Cited 255 Selected Bibliography 263 Index 267 ...