
Politics, Poetics, Affect
Re-visioning Cesar Vallejo
Stephen M. Hart(Author)
Stephen M. Hart(Editor)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 16. September 2013
Book
Hardback
190 pages
978-1-4438-4892-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book seeks to re-vision the life and work of the Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938). It consists of ten essays grouped into three complementary sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect. In Part I, William Rowe draws out the latent layers of political meaning in Vallejo's 'pre-political' work, Trilce; Adam Feinstein weighs the evidence for and against the case that there was a rift between the two most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century (Vallejo and Pablo Neruda); and David Bellis compares and contrasts Vallejo's Spanish Civil War poetry with that composed by Neruda and the Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen. In Part II, Dominic Moran provides a line-by-line dissection of Vallejo's favourite poem of his early period, 'El palco estrecho'; Adam Sharman offers a close reading of Poem XXIII of Trilce; Paloma Yannakakis looks at the role played by the human body in Vallejo's poetics; while Michelle Clayton reviews the ways in which animals are represented in Vallejo's poetry. In Part III, Santi Zegarra discusses the influence that Vallejo's poetry has had on his film-making; Eduardo Gonzalez Viana reveals how he re-created Vallejo's experience of imprisonment in his novel Vallejo en los infiernos; while Stephen Hart compares and contrasts the two main muses of Vallejo's early poetry, his niece (Otilia Vallejo Gamboa) and the woman he met in Lima (Otilia Villanueva Pajares).
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-4892-3 (9781443848923)
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Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He is a recipient of an Orden al Merito from Peru and his main publications are Cesar Vallejo: autografos olvidados (2003), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2010), Chiaroscuro: The Life and Work of Julio Garcia-Espinosa (2011) and Cesar Vallejo: A Literary Biography (2013).