Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics

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341 Index Ackroyd, Peter, 92, 293n45 Adorno, Theodor W., 4, 238, 242, 244, 274 Agamben, Giorgio, 162, 205 Alazraki, Jaime, 302n15, 303n23 Alberti, Rafael. See also Alberti works and feminization of Madrid, 191–92, 193–94 and narcissism, avoidance of, 15 and poetics of renewal, 189–90, 192, 194, 196 politics of, 191, 194, 226, 297n41 Alberti works La arboleda, 195 Capital de la Gloria, 190, 192 “Imagen primera,” 195 “Madrid-Otoño,” 189–93, 194, 297–98nn38–40 and n42 “El Otoño y el Ebro,” 190 in Poetas en la España leal, 155 Sobre los ángeles, 74 Alcázar of Toledo, 147–49, 180 Alegría, Fernando, 305n42 Aleixandre, Vicente, 194, 195, 298n45 Alianza de Intelectuales Antifascistas , 192, 194 Alighieri, Dante Cernuda and, 73 Divine Comedy, 73, 101, 258–59, 304n36 Eliot and, 42, 95, 101, 102, 104, 109, 110 Neruda and, 22, 240, 258–59, 265, 304n36 Alonso, Amado, 244–45, 246, 250, 251, 254–55, 302n19, 303–04n32 Alonso, Dámaso, 97, 98, 117 Altolaguirre, Manuel, 240 Alturas de Macchu Picchu (Neruda), 21–22, 253–54 Baroque aesthetics and, 256–57, 263, 264, 265–67, 305n43 Caro’s “Itálica” and, 21, 225, 263, 265–66, 288n42 and Cernuda’s “Las ruinas,” 288n42 and Dante’s Divine Comedy, 258–59, 304n36 death and decay and, 3, 158, 159–60, 253–54, 257, 262, 267, 271, 275, 303n30 and elegy, 262–63, 305n39 and nostalgia, avoidance of, 15–16, 226, 247, 259, 263, 270 origins and, 21–22, 234, 257–58, 262, 304n36 and poetics of renewal, 253–54, 259, 263, 264–65, 268, 304n37 Álvarez Junco, José, 153, 294n7 Andromache, 31–33, 284–85nn7– 8 and n11 Antiquity Baroque aesthetics and, 6, 8, 41, 140, 225 Baudelaire and, 31–33, 285n11 anti-Semitism, 160, 168–69, 296n22 apostrophe, function of, 81, 234, 264, 267, 278, 301n7 Aragon, Louis, 155 Auden, W. H., 154, 295n19 Avant-garde poetics evolution from self-centered to people-centered, 227–28, 233, 239, 256–57 nature and, 72 “yo en crisis,” 43, 219–20, 226, 228, 229, 232–33, 276 342 Index awakening, 13 Baudelaire and, 45–46, 49, 56–60, 67–68, 276, 287n33 Benjamin and, 4, 13, 25, 57, 59, 158, 284n3, 287n33 Cernuda and, 46, 55–56, 60 Neruda and, 21, 279 psychoanalytical, 25, 284n3 September 11, 2001 attacks and, 2, 269 and transatlantic politics of solidarity, 157–58, 171–72 Balfour, Sebastian, 164 Balibar, Etienne, 169 Bann, Stephen, 9 Barfield, Owen, 281n2, 303n24 Barón Palma, Emilio, 42, 61, 62, 286n24 Baroque aesthetics, 6, 7–9, 281–82nn7–10 Antiquity and, 6, 8, 41, 140, 225 Benjamin on, 35, 140–41, 232, 266–67 Cernuda and, 40, 41–42, 74, 84, 207, 211, 265 Donne and, 90, 289n4, 290nn5–8 of Latin America/America, 93, 111, 121, 135–38, 293n44 nature reclaiming ruins and, 10, 11, 40, 76–77, 122, 236–37, 245, 249, 252 Neruda and, 20–21, 211, 225, 226, 232, 245, 250, 256–57, 263, 264, 265–67, 305n43 origins and, 8 paradoxical imagery and contrasts, 7, 8, 98, 129, 135, 136, 237 Paz and Eliot as recuperating poets of, 18–19, 89, 90, 91, 98–102, 105–10, 132, 138, 141, 274, 276–77 rivers and, 8, 32, 52, 133, 207, 284n8 of Spain, 89–90, 281n4 Barthes, Roland, 281n1 Baudelaire, Charles, 16–17. See also Baudelaire and poets; Baudelaire works Antiquity and, 31–33, 285n11 awakening and, 45–46, 49, 56– 60, 67–68, 276, 287n33 and clouds, 57, 209 and crowds, 62, 75 death and, 8, 49, 50, 51, 59 dream or idealized space and, 44–45 the eternal and the fugitive, 140, 276 and the female gaze, 50, 58, 63, 65, 67 and feminization of the city, 30–32, 193 and the grotesque, 37, 46, 286n19 the ideal vs. reality and, 44–45, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52–53, 56, 57–60, 60, 74–75, 276 internal exile and, 28, 35–36 and the marginal (human ruins), 23, 31, 35, 44, 46, 60, 61, 275, 276 melancholy and, 24, 27, 34, 35–37, 40, 275–76, 284–86n10 and n13 and n17, 287n27 and “la mémoire du présent,” 61, 276 memory and, 31, 32–33, 61, 68, 85, 284n9 Modernity and, 31–33, 46–47, 62–64, 71, 82, 83, 84–85, 140, 176, 285n11 the natural and the artificial and, 52–53 negation/negative terminology and, 37, 38, 45–46, 286n18 [18.219.224.103] Project...