Robert Simon

Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism (eBook, ePUB)

From Post-Mortem to Post-Mystic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu's work within the 1980s post-"novísimo" movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible placement in the more recent mystical poetry of Spain. It provides a detailed textual analysis of her poetry, and in doing so reveals not only that her work encompasses notions of the surreal and the mystical but also, although Andreu has so far written entirely in Castilian (Spanish), that her poetry utilizes a variety of traditional Galician and Portuguese symbols and images. In this way her work challenges the boundaries between what we as readers may accept as a solely Castilian, Galician, or Spanish poetic. It bases its transtheoretical framework on findings from such fields as Galician studies, Iberian studies, mysticism studies, paradigm shift studies, and regional studies over the past two decades. Ultimately, this comprehensive and unique study shows how Andreu's multifaceted transnational work may pertain to, and expand, our knowledge of each of these areas of focus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498565721
• Artikelnr.: 56801408

Autorenporträt

Robert Simon is professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Kennesaw State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Paradigm Shifts and Iberia's Evolution: A Transtheoretical
Framework for the Poetry of Blanca Andreu
Chapter I: A New Iberian Mysticism
Chapter II: The Revived Galician Poetic
Chapter III: The Beginning of the Surrealist Mystic in De una niña de
provincias que vino a vivir en un Chagall
Chapter IV: The Mystic's World: Mystical Symbolism and Luso-Galician
Identity in La tierra transparente
Chapter V: The Re-incorporation of Blanca Andreu's poetry in the Paradigm
Shift
Appendix
Works Cited
Index
About the Author