This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillén, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Méndez,and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism. CANDELAS GALA Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University, USA. INDICE: The Poetry of the Imponderable. Pedro Salinas' Vocation: Unreliable Perception, Certainty of Chance, and the Reality of Fabling Jorge Guillén'sRadiant Matter: a Sensational Knowledge - Confluence, Field Theory, and JuanLarrea's 'Versión celeste' - Creating Worlds: Self-Reflexivity and the Cosmos in Gerardo Diego's 'Poetry of Creation' - Rafael Alberti's Comet or the Poetics of Energy and Light: From Electromagnetism to Thermodynamics - Concha Méndez: Poetry of Energy, Poetry as Energy - Lorca's 'Suites' and 'Canciones': Cubism, Light, and the Uncertainty of Reflections
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33835-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 262
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés