info@woodslane.com.au
Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

WOODSLANE

Popular Subjects

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9781666900101 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Mystical Symbolism and the Posthuman in the 20th and 21st Century Poetic

The Purple Gladiolus and the Mystic's Map
Description
Author
Biography
Table of
Contents
Google
Preview
This study, spanning c. 1980 to 2016, offers an alternative critical perspective of the poetic works of the acclaimed Spanish poet Ana Rossetti. At its core, it explores the presence of Posthumanism and the mystical in late 20th and early 21st Century Iberian poetics, and more specifically, how Rossetti's more recent poetry expresses the same tendency toward a transcultural and posthuman model that is simultaneously essentialist and deconstructive. The books examines modern Iberian mysticism as found in the works of such authors as Blanca Andreu, Clara Janes, and Joaquim Pessoa, Vergilio Alberto Vieira, among others. Such poetic works establish themselves within a unique framework of mystical illumination which itself incorporates elements of late postmodern deconstruction and, more recently, a criticism of the posthuman condition as analyzed in critical works on the subject.
Robert Simon is professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Kennesaw State University.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Summary of Literary Theory and the Poetry of 21st Century Spain, Context and Content Chapter I: Ana Rossetti and her Poetry from "la movida" to "la crisis" and beyond, 1975-1995 Chapter II: Transition from the Transition: La ordenacion: retrospectiva (1980-2004) (2004) Chapter III: Love Lost, Light Gained: Llenar tu nombre (2008) Chapter IV: The Geography of the Binary Opposition: El mapa de la espera (2010) Chapter V: The Post-human, Mystical Voice in Deudas contraidas (2016) Conclusion Bibliography About the Author
Google Preview content