Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde: Between Essentialism and Modernity

by Silvina Schammah Gesser

Book Overview

This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845197828
• ISBN13: 9781845197827
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"